The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
12th July 1862: Creation of the Congressional Medal of Honor
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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.
3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
3rd August 2020
1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched
1st August 2020
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