On the 8th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in England.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
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Beginning at a bakery in Pudding Lane, the catastrophic fire blazed for more than three days and destroyed over 13,000 houses, churches and government buildings.
On the 29th July 1567, James VI was crowned king of Scotland when he was just 13 months old.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
At 12 noon on the 13th July 1985, an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people tuned in to watch Live Aid, the “global jukebox” broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
The 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.
On the 5th July 1948, healthcare provision in the UK was nationalized when the National Health Service was launched.
Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.
9th December 1965: Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast
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7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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