On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the first time.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.
13 million people tuned in, securing it the second-highest audience share, but the film garnered an almost universally-negative response.
On the 10th November 1969, the American children’s television show Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time.
With 80% of all American television households watching at least one PBS program each year, it has been consistently rated the most-trusted national institution in the United States according to Roper Opinion Research polls.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on NBC.
Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll’.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
On the 9th December 1965, American television network CBS first broadcast the animated cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 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
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