The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
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The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the Safarnama.
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at 12.50pm.
With £200 in English gold and banknotes, and a single bag that was smaller than modern carry-on luggage, Bly departed from Hoboken Pier in New Jersey on board the Augusta Victoria steamship on 14 November 1889.
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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