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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

26th November 2022
Tagged as: Culture, Music, Punk, Television

The Damned had released what is recognised as the first ever punk single a month earlier.

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6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

6th November 2022
Tagged as: Art, Britain, Culture, England, London, Music, Punk, Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols supported pub rock band Bazooka Joe and played a few cover songs on equipment borrowed from the headliners, but the plug was pulled after twenty minutes.

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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

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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

6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

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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