On This Day: 9th of July
Posted on: Fri 9 Jul 2021
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On this day in history in 1877, the very first Wimbledon tennis championship was held. The tournament was the first official championship played on natural lawn.
In 1955, Bill Haley & the Comets rose to the top of the Billboard charts with their most notable single “Rock Around the Clock”.
Breakfast producer, Shannon Pearce, joins Breakfast’s Tom Mann and Paul Davies to elaborate on these events in history.
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Produced by Shannon Pearce