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

Tag: Sino-American Relations

Podcast

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

10th April 2018
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: Sino-American Relations

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

Meta

21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

24th October 1929: Wall Street Crash begins on ‘Black Thursday’

23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris express train crashes through a wall in Paris

21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

Tag: Sino-American Relations

Tags

Meta