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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

22nd April 2018
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

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

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20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard

23rd January 1900: British troops launch a nighttime attack on Spion Kop in the Second Boer War

22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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