It has since been adapted into numerous formats and is still printed in more than 40 countries.
6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
6th September 2018
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
A local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules’.
The ball sailed over the right-field fence to land in Lexington Avenue that ran alongside Cleveland’s League Park.
The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
On the 11th May 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions when it beat Garry Kasparov 3½-2½ over six matches.
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.
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
10th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
25th January 1890: Nellie Bly circumnavigates the world in 72 days
25th January 2021
24th January 1908: Robert Baden-Powell publishes Scouting for Boys
24th January 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019