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20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

20th September 2023
Tagged as: America, Billie JEan King, Bobby Riggs, Culture, Equality, Houston, Sport, Tennis, United States, USA, Women

Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.

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9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London

9th July 2022
Tagged as: Britain, Culture, England, London, Sport, Tennis, Wimbledon

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.

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9th July 1877: First Wimbledon Championship begins in London

9th July 2021
Tagged as: Britain, Culture, England, London, Sport, Tennis

The 9^th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.

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20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London

9th July 1877: First Wimbledon Championship begins in London

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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