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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Derby, England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The Derby first offered a $1 million purse in 1996; it was doubled to $2 million in 2005. [24] In 2020, the Derby was postponed from May 2 to September 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [25] This was the second time in history the race had been postponed, the other being in 1945. [5]
The Derby Telegraph (formerly the Derby Evening Telegraph) is the city's daily newspaper. Crime writer Richard Cox set his first book around his own experience as a Derby Telegraph reporter in the 1970s. [117] The Derby Trader was a free weekly newspaper that is no longer in print.
The first “Derby Day” on May 17, 1875, looked nothing like the international spectacle that draws hundreds of thousands of people to a storied racetrack rigged out with bars, clubs and ...
The first Kentucky Derby. The first time it was run, the Kentucky Derby wasn’t even the main event at the track that day. On May 17, 1875, a Monday afternoon, Kentucky Derby winner Aristides ran ...
Decked out in their most Derby-appropriate attire and sipping on cocktails in the grandstand of Churchill Downs, the some 150,000 people that will attend have no idea of the history that lies ...
Derby Airport (England) History of Derby County F.C. (1884–1967) History of Derby County F.C. (1967–present) Derby Exhibition (1839) Derby Midland F.C. Derby Philosophical Society; Derby plague of 1665; Derby Playhouse production history; Derby railway station; Derby School; The Derbyshire Blues; Derbyshire Record Office
The 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs was one of the most thrilling in the race’s hallowed and lengthy history, with Mystik Dan holding off a late charge from the ...