American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
The 1896 Summer Olympics laid down many traditions including the first competitive marathon race.
The match was a semi-final at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games and became famous as a result of the violence that ran throughout the game.
The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a grenade.
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in Montreal.
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 6th September 1972, nine Israeli Olympic athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group in the Munich massacre.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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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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