On this day: The First Episode of Coronation Street
On December 9, 1960, the first episode of British soap opera Coronation Street was broadcast on Granada Television. Still going strong 54 years and over 8400 episodes later, the show is broadcast several times each week in the UK and…
On this day: The Million Dollar Quartet
On December 4, 1956, an impromptu jam session took place at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, featuring Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, which a local newspaper dubbed ‘The Million Dollar Quartet’. With Perkins in…
On this day: Eat A Red Apple Day
December 1st is ‘Eat a Red Apple Day’, according to quite a number of web sites, though nobody seems to know where the celebration originated. There’s also the saying ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away,’ which would seem…
On this day: First International Football Match
On this day in 1872, the first bona fide international football match took place on St Andrew’s Day between Scotland and England at the West of Scotland’s Cricket Ground in the Partick area of Glasgow. Although a series of games…
On this day: Band Aid Recorded ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’
What is this non-descript building in north-west London, you ask? It just happens to be the studio where one of the biggest selling singles in UK history was recorded. On this date in 1984, a star-studded list of pop and…
On this day: Doctor Who First Broadcast
Hello time-travellers… Today we’re visiting the Tardis to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the broadcast of the first episode of Doctor Who on the BBC. Through the wonders of Street View you can tour the interior of the famous “bigger…
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