Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the area.
On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World newspaper.
On the 19th June 1978, the Garfield comic strip was first published.
On the 14th March 1950, the FBI launched its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
The Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper, was published in London.
At 3.51pm on the afternoon of the 25th January 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New Jersey after completing a 72 day, 24,899-mile journey around the world.
The world’s first radio news program was broadcast on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game’.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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