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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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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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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