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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

22nd April 2020
Tagged as: Bicycle, China, Cycling, Exploration, Japan, San Francisco, USA

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the world.

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1st July 1903: First Tour de France cycling race takes place

1st July 2019
Tagged as: Culture, Cycling, France, Newspaper, Paris, Race, Sport

On the 1^st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.

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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

1st July 1903: First Tour de France cycling race takes place

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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