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3rd May 1830: World’s first steam-powered passenger service begins operating on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway

3rd May 2022
Tagged as: Britain, England, Railway, Science, Seaside, Steam, Technology, Train, Transport

Built by George and Robert Stevenson in Newcastle, and transported to Whitstable by sea, Invicta was the first steam locomotive to haul passengers on a public railway line.

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19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

19th September 2021
Tagged as: Blackpool, Electricity, Lancashire, Light, Seaside, Technology, Victorian

The Illuminations at the British seaside resort of Blackpool were turned on for the first time.

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3rd May 1830: World’s first steam-powered passenger service begins operating on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway

19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

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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

7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy

5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris

4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

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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