The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles.
21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)
21st January 2018
The Hollywood Bowl opened in Bolton Canyon near Los Angeles.
The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground during a performance of Henry VIII.
On the 9th May 1887, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West Brompton.
Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was lifted.
On the 30th October 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds as part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air.
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster
21st October 2019
20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March
20th October 2019
18th October 1922: British Broadcasting Company established
18th October 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017