Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy
16th January 2019
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
At 12 noon on the 13th July 1985, an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people tuned in to watch Live Aid, the “global jukebox” broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place on July 11th 1962 when the Telstar satellite relayed an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.
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