Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available worldwide.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of Langenhagen.
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James Buchanan.
The Panama Canal was officially opened to traffic with the transit of SS Ancon.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.
If you ever claimed that something was the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’re referring to a very particular date – the 7th July 1928.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum.
In what Kenneth Arnold later complained was an ‘historic misquote’, the press coined the now-ubiquitous phrase ‘flying saucers’ to describe the UFOs.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
15th September 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019