The match was a semi-final at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games and became famous as a result of the violence that ran throughout the game.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Twelve teams from across the Midlands and the North West of England made up the very first Football League.
The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a grenade.
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel.
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 first Wimbledon Championship was staged in order to raise money to repair the roller that was used to maintain the lawns at the club, and only featured a Gentlemen’s Singles competition.
60 competitors began the race at Montgeron, south of Paris, of whom 39 were private entrants.
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
Official figures placed attendance at 126,000 people – 1,000 more than the stadium’s capacity – but estimates suggest that the crowd was probably twice that size.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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