HistoryPod
1,363 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 234 ratingsThe 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedely posts his 95 Theses
October 31, 2020 03:05 - 1 ByteOn the 31st October 1517, the foundations of the Protestant Reformation were laid when Martin Luther reputedly nailed his ‘Ninety-five Theses’ to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg – a town in the German state of ...
27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me
October 27, 2020 03:05 - 1 ByteOn the 27th October 1960 American singer Ben E. King recorded the renowned song Stand By ...
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
October 25, 2020 03:05 - 1 ByteOn the 25th October 1415, the English king Henry V celebrated a major victory in the Hundred Years War when he defeated the numerically superior French army at the Battle of ...
17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people
October 17, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court ...
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
October 13, 2020 02:05 - 1.47 MBOn the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being ...
11th October 1521: Henry VIII becomes ‘Defender of the Faith’
October 11, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 11th October 1521, Pope Leo X granted the title "Defender of the Faith" to King Henry VIII of ...
9th October 1967: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara executed in Bolivia
October 09, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a ...
29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland
September 29, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of ...
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
September 27, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in ...
25th September 1513: European ‘discovery’ of the Pacific Ocean
September 25, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 25th September 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first European to successfully lead an expedition to the Pacific Ocean from the New ...
21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published
September 21, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 21st September 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit was first published in the United ...
19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset
September 19, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 19th September 1970 the first Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in ...
17th September 1978: Egypt & Israel sign Camp David Accords
September 17, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 17th September 1978 the Camp David Accords, which led to the first ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem ...
14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface
September 14, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteShortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the ...
11th September 1978: Last ever death from smallpox
September 11, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from ...
9th September 1947: Moth ‘bug’ discovered inside a Harvard computer
September 09, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical ...
5th September 1698: Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
September 05, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 5th September 1698, Tsar Peter I of Russia – otherwise known as Peter the Great – imposed a tax on ...
3rd September 1939: Second World War begins
September 03, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on ...
30th August 1918: Lenin shot in a failed assassination attempt
August 30, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination ...
29th August 1911: Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California
August 29, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteIshi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in ...
28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr declares ‘I Have a Dream’
August 28, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 28th August 1963, American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ...
27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed
August 27, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 27th August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – otherwise known as the Kellogg-Briand ...
26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls
August 26, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara ...
25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson
August 25, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteForty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, ...
24th August AD 79: Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii & Herculaneum
August 24, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and ...
23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history
August 23, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas ...
22nd August 1485: Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth
August 22, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 22nd August 1485, King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and the forces of Henry Tudor brought the Plantagenet dynasty to an ...
21st August 1911: The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre
August 21, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteLeonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on the 21st August ...
20th August 1920: America’s NFL, known at the time as the American Professional Football Conference, was established
August 20, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteA local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of ...
18th August 1612: Trial of the Pendle Witches begins
August 18, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches ...
17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany
August 17, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe world’s first commercially successful steamship was launched on the Hudson River between New York and ...
16th August 1819: Protesters killed in the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 16th August 1819, the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field in Manchester when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by ...
15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London
August 15, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe last execution at the Tower of London took place on the 15th August 1941. Josef Jakobs was a German spy who was arrested after he signalled for help after breaking his ankle when he parachuted into Britain. Find out more at ...
14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard
August 14, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 14th August 1980, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in the Polish city of Gdańsk led by electrician Lech Wałęsa began a strike that led to the formation of the Solidarity labour ...
13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps
August 13, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteJohnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the ...
12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson
August 12, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan ...
11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs
August 11, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe ball sailed over the right-field fence to land in Lexington Avenue that ran alongside Cleveland’s League ...
10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution
August 10, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteIt had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...
9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the USA
August 09, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 9th August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment and the almost certain removal from office due to the Watergate ...
8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.
August 08, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteTens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...
7th August 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by US Congress
August 07, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 7th August 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the United States ...
6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
August 06, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola ...
4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War
August 04, 2020 02:05 - 1 BytePresident Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...
3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
August 03, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteAt 8am on the 3rd August 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on the voyage that would take him to the ...
2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car
August 02, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...
1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched
August 01, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOriginally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...
31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins
July 31, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteThe first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement ‘in making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and ...
28th July 1932: Bonus Marchers forcibly evicted from Washington D.C. by the Army
July 28, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteBonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas ...
26th July 1948: Truman abolished racial segregation in the US military with Executive Order 9981
July 26, 2020 02:05 - 1 BytePresident Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. ...
20th July 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon
July 20, 2020 02:05 - 1 ByteOn the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the ...