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Back in the Day: Soviets win the space raceApril 12, 1961: The Soviet Union wins the space race against the USA when Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. Gagarin was launched into orbit on the… 12/04/2013
Back in the Day: Federer begins his reign as King of TennisFebruary 2, 2004 A day after winning the Australian Open (see picture), Roger Federer, then aged 22, becomes the world number one of mens’ tennis, overtaking… 02/02/2012
Back in the Day: the end of the Reign of TerrorJuly 28, 1794. Maximilien Robespierre, one of the most prominent leaders in the French Revolution and the key figurehead in Reign of Terror, is executed along… 28/07/2011
Back in the Day: mysterious death of the King of castlesJune 13, 1886. The dead bodies of Ludwig II of Bavaria and his psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudeen are found floating in Lake Starnberg, near Munich. The… 13/06/2011
Back in the Day: fun to be at the YMCAJune 6, 1844. The Young Men’s Christian Association, or YMCA, is founded in London by George Williams (later Sir George). The original aim was to provide… 06/06/2011
Back in the Day: Joan of Arc burned at the stakeMay 30, 1431 French heroin Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English for heresy, aged 19 years old. Inspired by the voices of Catholic saints in her… 30/05/2011
Back in the Day: the evacuation of DunkirkMay 26, 1940. Surrounded by German troops, Allied soldiers began an evacuation from the beaches and harbour of the northern French port of Dunkirk. A German… 25/05/2011
Back in the Day: US police kill Bonnie and ClydeMay 23, 1934. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot dead by Texas police after a two-year crime spree together that left 13 people, including nine police… 23/05/2011
Back in the Day: beginnings of the blue jeanMay 20, 1873. Clothing merchant Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis receive a US patent for an ‘Improvement in Fastening Pocket Openings’ for trousers. Davis… 19/05/2011
Back in the Day: Happy Birthday…Mr. PresidentMay 19, 1962. At a birthday tribute to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York, Marilyn Monroe sings her famously breathless version of… 18/05/2011
Back in the Day: introducing DraculaMay 18, 1897. Irish writer Bram Stoker presents ‘Dracula’ to a small audience at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a week before the eponymous novel was first… 17/05/2011
Back in the Day: birth of the New York Stock ExchangeMay 17, 1792. A group of 24 stock brokers create what would become the New York Stock Exchange. They signed the Buttonwood Agreement under a buttonwood… 16/05/2011
Back in the Day: Kermit the Frog’s TV debutMay 9, 1955. A puppet television show named Sam and Friends, created by Jim Henson and his partner (and later wife) Jane gets its first airing on local… 09/05/2011
Back in the Day: Channel tunnel links Britain and FranceMay 6, 1994. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French president François Mitterand officially open the Channel Tunnel, the first fixed link between… 05/05/2011
Back in the Day: birth of the Council of EuropeMay 5, 1949. The Council of Europe is created with the signing of the Treaty of London by the ten original member states. Today, the Council comprises 47… 04/05/2011
Back in the Day: the dawn of the family holiday!May 3, 1936: The Front Populaire wins the second round of elections in France. A coalition of communist and other left-wing parties, it was created just two… 02/05/2011
Back in the Day: mutiny on the BountyApril 28, 1789. Fletcher Christian leads 11 other crew members of the British navy’s HMS Bounty to stage a mutiny. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors loyal… 27/04/2011
Back in the Day: South Africa’s Freedom DayApril 27, 1994. Voting begins in South Africa’s first post-apartheid election, with non-whites allowed to take part freely for the first time. Almost 20… 26/04/2011
April 26, 1937: the bombing of GuernicaApril 26, 1937. In their effort to help General Franco’s Nationalists win the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian bombers attack the small Basque town of… 25/04/2011
Back in the Day: Portugal’s Carnation RevolutionApril 25, 1974. The playing of a song, ‘Grandola, Vila Morena’, on Portuguese radio at 00:20 gives the signal for rebel army officers to launch their military… 25/04/2011
Back in the Day: meet the SimpsonsApril 19, 1987: The Simpsons is broadcast for the first time as a one-minute short animation on The Tracey Ullman Show. Creator Matt Groening named the… 19/04/2011
Back in the Day: the day nothing happenedApril 18, 1930. A BBC Radio newsreader announces “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.” It’s difficult to imagine what a day without news… 18/04/2011
Back in the Day: Lincoln shot deadApril 14, 1865. US President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching ‘Our American Cousin’ in Ford’s Theatre, Washington D.C. His assassin, actor John Wilkes… 13/04/2011
Back in the Day: Woods masters allApril 13, 1997. Tiger Woods tears the record books to shreds with his first major golf title at the Masters in Augusta. Aged 21, he broke 20 tournament… 12/04/2011
Back in the Day: Soviets win space raceApril 12 1961 The Soviet Union won the space race against the USA when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Gagarin was launched into orbit on the… 11/04/2013
Back in the Day: remember the Walkman?*July 1, 1979* Sony introduces the Walkman TPS-L2 portable cassette player, a device that would change the way people listened to music. The idea came about… 01/07/2012
Back in the Day: when time literally stood stillJune 30, 1972. The ‘leap second’ is introduced for the first time simultaneously across the world, effectively stopping the world’s clocks for one second… 29/06/2012
Back in the Day: Gay pride explodes out of the closetJune 28, 1969. Riots erupt after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York, a popular club among the gay community, in what is seen as a watershed moment… 28/06/2012
Back in the Day: the Battle of Los AngelesFebruary 24, 1942. Prompted by air raid sirens, the US military fires over a thousand anti-aircraft rounds into the sky over Los Angeles at a target that to… 24/02/2012
Back in the Day: Motorsport legend Fangio taken hostage in CubaFebruary 23, 1958. Argentine 5-time world motor racing world champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped in Cuba, a day before a Grand Prix race in the island’s… 22/02/2012
Back in the Day: Malcolm X assassinatedFebruary, 21 1965: Malcolm Little, known to the world as Malcolm X, is shot dead at a meeting in New York City. The black civil rights leader was preparing to… 20/02/2012
Back in the Day: Madame Butterfly’s disastrous debutFebruary 17, 1904. Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly (Italian: Madama Butterfly) is performed for the first time at La Scala in Milan. Set in Japan, it… 16/02/2012
Back in the Day: Castro comes to power in CubaFebruary 16, 1959. Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, beginning a near-50 year rule as the country’s leader. A leftist revolutionary since… 14/02/2012
Back in the Day: Captain Cook’s fateful Valentine’s DayFebruary 14, 1779 On his third voyage (1776-1779) around the globe British explorer James Cook was attempting to discovering the Northwest Passage, a sea… 13/02/2012
Back in the Day: Maastricht Treaty creates the EU and the euroFebruary 7, 1992 The member states of the European Community sign the Maastricht Treaty in the Netherlands. As a result of the treaty the European Union was… 06/02/2012
Back in the Day: the day the music diedFebruary 3, 1959 Three of the earliest heroes of Rock and Roll – Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson – are killed along with their… 02/02/2012
Back in the Day: McDonalds comes to MoscowJanuary 31, 1990: American fast-food restaurant McDonalds opens its first Soviet store in Moscow, marking a symbolic post-Cold War entry of a staple of… 30/01/2012
Back in the Day: assassination of a peace iconJanuary 30, 1948: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the iconic leader of the peaceful Indian independence movement, is shot and killed by Hindu extremist Nathuram… 30/01/2012
Back in the Day: discovery of the world’s biggest diamondJanuary 26, 1905 South African mine manager Frederick Wells discovers a 3,106 carat (106.1 gram) diamond in the Premier Mine near Pretoria, South Africa… 26/01/2012
Back in the Day: dawn of the Winter OlympicsJanuary 25, 1924: The French Alpine resort of Chamonix hosts the first edition of the Winter Olympics. The idea of an Olympic Games for winter sports had been… 24/01/2012
Back in the Day: end of WWII comes 28 years late for Japanese soldierJanuary 24, 1972 After 28 years hiding in the jungle in Guam where he had been fighting in World War II, Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered by local… 23/01/2012
Back in the Day: Nazis put the Final Solution on the recordJanuary 20, 1942 Fifteen senior officials in the Nazi German regime meet for the Wannsee Conference to make official arrangements for the deportation and… 20/01/2012
Back in the Day: Europe produces its last VW BeetleJanuary 19, 1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle to be made in Europe rolls off the production line at the group’s Emden plant in Germany. The Beetle would… 18/01/2012
Back in the Day: first colonists arrive in AustraliaJanuary 18, 1788 HMS Supply the first of 11 ships carrying British seamen and convicts destined to colonise Australia, arrive in Botany Bay in Sydney (New… 17/01/2012
Back in the Day: the Shah flees IranJanuary 16, 1979 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is forced to flee his country by violent protests against him. His removal paved the way for Shia… 13/01/2012
Back in the Day: j’accuse!January 13, 1898 French writer Emile Zola writes an open letter to the president of France, Félix Faure, in which he accuses the government and military of… 12/01/2012
Back in the Day: dead man frozen, just in case…January 12, 1967 James Bedford, a university psychology professor from California, becomes the first person to be cryogenically preserved- frozen after death… 12/01/2012
Back in the Day: the tobacco industry’s ‘smoking gun’January 11, 1964 Surgeon General of the United States, Luther Terry, publishes a report on the adverse health effects of smoking. While not the first official… 10/01/2012
Back in the Day: the world’s first underground railwayJanuary 10, 1863 The world’s first underground railway opens in London. Initially around six kilometres of track were used to link Paddington Station to… 09/01/2012
Back in the Day: Egypt begins its quest to control the NileJanuary 9, 1960 Work begins on the construction of the Aswan High Dam, Egypt’s plan to control the power of the world’s longest river, the Nile. The High Dam… 06/01/2012
Back in the Day: the ugly side of figure skatingJanuary 6, 1994 American ice skater Nancy Kerrigan (see picture, left) is attacked during practice for the national Figure Skating Championships in Detroit… 05/01/2012
Back in the Day: the start of the ‘Prague Spring’January 5, 1968 Alexander Dubcek is elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and immediately goes about implementing liberal reforms… 04/01/2012
Back in the Day: Dubai’s Burj becomes the world’s biggest buildingJanuary 4, 2010 Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is officially opened. Standing at 829.84 metres (2,723 feet) tall is rises around 183… 03/01/2012
Back in the Day: Noriega surrenders to US troopsJanuary 3, 1990 Panama’s dictator General Manuel Noriega hands himself over to US soldiers who found him hiding in the Vatican embassy in Panama City, two… 03/01/2012
Back in the Day: the beginning of the big screen!December 28, 1895 The Lumière brothers organise the world’s first cinema showing to a paying audience. A total of 33 people came to the Grand Café in Paris… 27/12/2011
Rétromachine : l’ordinateur mis à l’honneur par le Time MagazineLe 26 décembre 1982 pour la première fois en 50 ans, le premier objet inanimé a fait la une du Time Magazine. C’est l’année de l’avènement de l’ordinateur… 26/12/2011
Back in the Day: van Gogh cuts off his earDecember 23, 1888 Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cuts off his own left ear, or at least part of the earlobe, after a row with fellow artist and close friend… 22/12/2011
Back in the Day: CC, the first cloned petDecember 22, 2001 A cat named CC, or Carbon Copy (pictured), is born at Texas A&M University, making her the world’s first cloned domestic animal. Cloning had… 21/12/2011
Back in the Day: the world’s first crossword!December 21, 1913 The New York World newspaper publishes the first ever example of a crossword. The diamond-shaped puzzle (see picture) was created by… 20/12/2011
Back in the Day: Britain’s biggest ever bank heistDecember 20, 2004 A group of men steal more than £26.5 million (approx. 31 million euros) in sterling, dollars and euros from the headquarters of Northern… 19/12/2011
Back in the day: Andrei Sakharov is released from exileDecember 19, 1986 Soviet nuclear physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov is released from exile in Gorky, along with his wife, Yelena Bonner. As a… 16/12/2011
Back in the Day: the Boston Tea PartyDecember 16, 1773 Dozens of men in the then-British colony of Boston, Massachusetts break into a British merchant ship and throw 342 chests of tea into the… 15/12/2011
Back in the Day: Pisa’s leaning tower re-opens slightly straighterDecember 15, 2001 The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa re-opens to the public after 11 years of work to make the landmark more secure. The tower had been tilting… 14/12/2011
Back in the Day: team Amundsen reaches the South PoleDecember 14, 1911 A five-man team led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen become the first men to arrive at the South Pole. Amundsen, along with Olav… 13/12/2011
Back in the Day: the capture of SaddamDecember 13, 2003 Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is found by American soldiers hiding in a hole in a farmyard near his hometown, Tikrit. He had been on… 12/12/2011
Back in the Day: stolen Mona Lisa foundDecember 12, 1913 Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa is found in a hotel room in Florence, Italy two years after being stolen from the Louvre… 09/12/2011
Back in the Day: Man kills diseaseDecember 9, 1979 The World Health Organisation (WHO) certifies the eradication of smallpox, making it the first disease Man had successfully managed to… 08/12/2011
Back in the Day: John Lennon shot deadDecember 8, 1980 John Lennon is shot dead outside his residence in the Dakota building in New York City. He was returning from a recording studio with his… 07/12/2011
Back in the Day: Japan attacks Pearl HarbourDecember 7, 1941 Just before 8:00 in the morning, a fleet of hundreds of Japanese Imperial war planes begins a surprise military attack on a US naval base in… 06/12/2011
Back in the day: the Anglo-Irish TreatyDecember 6, 1921 marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the agreement between the British government and representatives of… 05/12/2011
Back in the Day: Montgomery Bus BoycottOn December 5 , 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began in earnest. Led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, it followed Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on a bus… 05/12/2011
Back in the Day: the heart that was built to last longerDecember 2, 1982 Retired American dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to be implanted with a permanent artificial heart. The Jarvis 7 device… 01/12/2011
Back in the Day: a landmark date for mass productionDecember 1, 1913 A moving assembly line starts rolling at the Ford Motor Company’s production site in Highland Park, Michigan, USA, marking the start of an… 30/11/2011
Back in the Day: the first international football matchNovember 30, 1872 England play Scotland in the first official international football match. The game was held at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Hamilton… 30/11/2011
Back in the Day: the UN divides PalestineNovember 29, 1947 The UN adopts resolution 181 and its plan to divide Palestine – until then under British control – into “independent Arab and Jewish… 28/11/2011
Back in the Day: Thatcher resigns as British PMOn 28 November, 1990, Margaret Thatcher, dubbed the Iron Lady, resigned as British prime minister after over 11 years in office. Thatcher was replaced by… 28/11/2011
Back in the day: Thatcher resigns as British PMOn 28 November, 1990, Margaret Thatcher, dubbed the Iron Lady, resigned as British prime minister after over 11 years in office. Thatcher was replaced by… 25/11/2011
Back in the Day: The Mousetrap begins its astonishing theatre runNovember 25, 1952 The Mousetrap, a murder-mystery play written by Agatha Christie, begins its incredible record-breaking theatre run at the New Ambassadors… 24/11/2011
Back in the Day: evolution’s revolutionNovember 24, 1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, a work of scientific literature that would transform the… 23/11/2011
Back in the Day: Africa’s first female head of stateNovember 23, 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is officially declared the next President of Liberia, making her the first elected female African head of state. … 22/11/2011
Back in the Day: who shot J.R.?November 21, 1980 a worldwide television audience of an estimated 350 million people tune in to find out who shot J.R. Ewing in the US television series… 21/11/2011
Back in the Day: JFK shot deadNovember 22, 1963 US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot while travelling in an open-top motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Half an hour later he was… 21/11/2011
Back in the Day: William Tell’s apple-shot*November 18, 1307* According to Swiss legend this is the date on which folk hero William Tell shoots a crossbow bolt through an apple placed on his son’s… 17/11/2011
Back in the Day: from Terminator to ‘Governator’November 17, 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger, former champion bodybuilder and star of action films such as ‘Terminator’, is sworn in as Governor of California. He… 16/11/2011
Back in the Day: the conception of the Acid GenerationNovember 16, 1938 Swiss chemists Arthur Stoll and Albert Hoffman become the first scientists to synthesize LSD, the highly hallucinogenic drug that went on to… 15/11/2011
Back in the Day: the League of NationsNovember 15, 1920 The first general Assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva with delegations of the 42 founding member states. The League was… 14/11/2011
Back in the Day: Colombia’s independence heroine is martyredNovember 14, 1817 Policarpa Salavarrieta, a spy for revolutionaries in present-day Colombia, is executed by pro-Spanish royalists. Salavarrieta, known to… 11/11/2011
Back in the Day: the first ‘Minutes of Silence’November 11, 1919 To mark the first anniversary of the Armistice that officially ended the Great War, two minutes of silence are observed to remember those… 10/11/2011
Back in the Day: ¿¡Por qué no te callas!?November 10, 2007 The King of Spain Juan Carlos I tells Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "¿Por qué no te callas?" – or ‘Why don’t you just shut up?’ – at an… 09/11/2011
Back in the Day: the wind of change blows down the Berlin WallNovember 9, 1989. Berliners begin to cross the Berlin Wall freely, 28 years, two months and 28 days after construction began and passage from East to West… 09/11/2011
Back in the Day: Led Zep IV hits the record shops*November 8, 1971.* Led Zeppelin releases Led Zeppelin IV, which becomes the third-best-selling album ever in the US, and includes what many fans consider to… 07/11/2011
Back in the Day: a Mexican hero is madeNovember 7, 1907. Mexican railroad engineer Jesus Garcia Corona drives a dynamite-laden train that has caught fire away from the mining town of Nacozari. The… 04/11/2011
Back in the Day: discovery of Tutankhamun’s tombNovember 4, 1922. A member of an excavation team led by British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the ancient tomb of Tutankhamun… 03/11/2011
Back in the Day: Soviets send a dog to spaceNovember 3, 1957. A three-year-old stray dog named Laika (translated as ‘Barker’ in Russian) becomes the first mammal to be sent into orbit aboard the Soviet… 02/11/2011
Back in the Day: first and only flight of the world’s largest planeNovember 2, 1947. The enormous H-4 Hercules, to this day the biggest plane ever made, makes a successful maiden flight at Long Beach, California. It would… 01/11/2011
Back in the Day: Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling opens to the publicNovember 1, 1512. Michelangelo’s artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opens for the first time to the public, four and a half years after the artist… 31/10/2011
Back in the Day: Assassination of Indira GandhiOn October 28, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Some three million people attended the funeral of the woman who had served four terms as Prime minister… 28/10/2011
Back in the Day: US President inaugurate the Statue of LibertyOn October 28, 1886 US President Grover Cleveland inaugurated the Statue of Liberty along with 600 special guests and thousands of spectators. The statue was… 27/10/2011
Back in the day: New York inaugurated its first underground urban railwayOn October 27, 1904 New York inaugurated its first underground urban railway. Along its 14.5 kilometre length on the island of Manhattan there were 28… 26/10/2011
Gunfight at the OK CorralOn October 26 1881 the Earp brothers, along with friend Doc Holliday took on the Clancy and McLaury gangs in the mining town of Tombstone in Arizona. The… 25/10/2011
