What happened On This Day in History?!

Gunners & Ali - On This Day

Monday, 11 July 2022 - 3 minutes

On This Day... Big Ben chimed for the first time in London in 1859, Don Bradman made a record 309 runs in one day in 1930, To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, Skylab returned to earth after 6 years, burning up over WA in 1979, EON FM was the first commercial FM station to air in Australia in 1980, Snow fell on Uluru for the first (recorded) time in 1997, and Venus Williams became the oldest female Grand Slam winner in tennis history when she won Wimbledon in 2015 and then won it again in 2016. 

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