Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first time.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 24th May 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland.
An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in 1989.
On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the first time.
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.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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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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