On the 8th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in England.
6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA
6th November 2017
Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 6th September 1972, nine Israeli Olympic athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group in the Munich massacre.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in Montreal.
The 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game’.
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
On 28th April 1923, the original Wembley Stadium in London opened with the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.
On the 20th April 1965, workers began painting skylight windows at the Houston Astrodome to limit glare from the sun.
16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian
16th September 2019
13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
13th September 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
