Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the area.
3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War
3rd September 2017
On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World newspaper.
On the 13th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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.
19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
19th January 2019
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2019
17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm
17th January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017