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13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

13th July 2022
Tagged as: America, Britain, Concert, Culture, London, Music, Philadelphia, USA, Wembley

News reports the day after the concert stated that Live Aid had raised upwards of £40 million.

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15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

15th September 2020
Tagged as: America, Civil Rights, Philadelphia, Race, Racism, United States

The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American states.

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13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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