On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019