The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.
30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty
30th November 2017
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.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017