On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
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On the 19th June 1978, the Garfield comic strip was first published.
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’.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 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.
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.
21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA
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20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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