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    Golf and football were both banned in Scotland in 1457, because they had become too much of a distraction from the war effort against England.

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The General Slocum steamship sank, killing 1,021 people

On the 15th June, 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire and sank in New York City’s East River, killing 1,021 people.

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