This is a placeholder for your sticky navigation bar. It should not be visible.

Tag: Ping Pong

Podcast

10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

10th April 2020
Tagged as: America, China, Cold War, Communism, Diplomacy, International Relations, Mao, Nixon, Ping Pong, Sino-American Relations, Sport, Table Tennis, United States, USA

The United States table tennis team heralded the era of ‘ping pong diplomacy’ by becoming the first official American delegation to visit China in 20 years.

HistoryPod

Tag: Ping Pong

10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

Meta

23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

Tag: Ping Pong

Tags

Meta