The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
10th April 2020
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
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.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
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 December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off
15th July 2020
14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
14th July 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018