The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following year.
The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Mallard set the record of 125.88mph on a stretch of slightly downhill railway track at Stoke Band, south of the town of Grantham.
Built by George and Robert Stevenson in Newcastle, and transported to Whitstable by sea, Invicta was the first steam locomotive to haul passengers on a public railway line.
Not all the recommendations were implemented, but the subsequent Beeching Cuts resulted in the closure of 2,128 stations, thousands of miles of track, and the loss of up to 70,000 jobs.
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production line.
On the 9th February 1969, the first test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ took place.
On the 8th August 1963, a gang of 15 men attacked a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and stole over £2.6million in cash.
On the 6th May 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg experienced a mid-air explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey and was engulfed in flames in just 32 seconds.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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