On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World newspaper.
11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time
11th October 2019
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
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.
On the 13th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
6th April 2020
5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England
5th April 2020
3rd April 1882: Outlaw Jesse James shot by Robert Ford
3rd April 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
