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The Web's First Image
The Web's First Image

Episode 1197

Tim Berners-Lee uploaded a photo of parody doo-wop group Les Horrible Cernettes on 18th July 1992 - the first image to be shared online.

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Rebranding the Royal Family
Rebranding the Royal Family

Episode 1196

Windsor became the official surname of the British Royal family on 17th July 1917, when King George V issued a proclamation declaring that “The Name …

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The Kennedy Curse

Episode 1195

John F. Kennedy Jr., son of JFK and Jackie Onassis, disappeared off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard on July 16th, 1999. He had crashed his private pla…

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The Red Planet Gets Closer

The first images of Mars found their way back to Earth from NASA’s Mariner 4 mission on 15th July, 1965 - and were simultaneously revelatory and disa…

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Catching Billy The Kid
Catching Billy The Kid

Episode 1192

Cold-blooded killer? Folk hero? Petty thief? Billy The Kid, who met his end on 14th July, 1881, was all of the above. His luck finally ran out in a d…

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Blasphemy!
Blasphemy!

Episode 1191

Mary Whitehouse successfully sued Gay News and publisher Denis Lemon at the Old Bailey in a trial that began on 11th July, 1977 - Britain’s last conv…

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Adventures of the Boy Horsemen
Adventures of the Boy Horsemen

Episode 1190

The ‘Abernathy Boys’, Temple and Louis, were aged just 5 and 8 respectively when they departed Guthrie, Oklahoma for a 1,300-mile horseback trip to R…

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Bill Haley's Teenage Anthem
Bill Haley's Teenage Anthem

Episode 1189

Rock Around The Clock was a moderately successful B-side - until its inclusion in the teen rebellion movie Blackboard Jungle - following which, on 9t…

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The Miracle in the Ashes
The Miracle in the Ashes

Episode 1188

‘Our Lady of Kazan’, a painting of the Virgin and Child, was discovered in the ashes of a fire in the Russian town of Kazan on 8th July, 1579. The ic…

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America's Child Ambassador
America's Child Ambassador

Episode 1187

Samantha Smith, an 11 year-old from Maine, New England, left for the USSR on 7th July, 1983, as the personal guest of Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov.

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