The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed.
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the Safarnama.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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