The United States Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s ruling in Browder v. Gayle that segregation on public buses and transportation in Alabama was illegal.
29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada
29th July 2018
The world’s first commercially successful steamship was launched on the Hudson River between New York and Albany.
The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable car.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
On the 3rd May 1830, the world’s first timetabled steam-powered passenger service began operating on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway.
On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.
On the 9th February 1969, the first test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ took place.
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
On the 22nd October 1895, the Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminus.
The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
10th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union
19th January 2021
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019