The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.
21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)
21st January 2018
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster
21st October 2019
20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March
20th October 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017