Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
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.
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 2019
19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
19th January 2019
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017