The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific
8th May 2020
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the Safarnama.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018