On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie – became the first cow to fly in an aeroplane.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
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She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
On the 17th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
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8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019