The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper
11th March 2019
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.
On the 8th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in England.
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.
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018