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HistoryPod
The '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-...
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20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII
Clement established his court in Avignon, supported by France, Scotland, and several other European states. Urban VI, meanwhile, retained control of R...
19th September 1970: First Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, known at the time as the Pilton Festival of Pop, Folk, and Blues
Organised by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, the event was billed as the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival and attracted 1,500 people who paid a pound eac...
18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los ...
17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash
Whilst circling the parade ground of Fort Myer, a propeller blade split and broke apart. This struck one of the wires that controlled the rudder, pitc...
16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as ...
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...
14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah
Messiah has since become one of the most frequently performed choral works in Western music with the “Hallelujah” chorus becoming a central piece in t...
13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...
12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...
11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution
The French Blue diamond had been part of the royal collection since the seventeenth century, and was stolen by a group of thieves after King Louis XVI...
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen ...
9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer
The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic ...
8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina
Contemporary accounts suggest that over 20,000 sheep were gathered near Fortín Conesa in northern Patagonia, from where they undertook a gruelling jou...
7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising
Warbeck had convinced his followers that he was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘Princes in the ...
6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet that circumnavigated the ...
5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West
Gouzenko’s defection had far-reaching effects. In Canada, several people were arrested and convicted of espionage while other Western governments were...
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...
3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...
2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade
The Treaty of Jaffa established a three-year truce and confirmed that Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, although Christian pilgrims would b...
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World ...
31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water
Physician John Snow investigated the outbreak by mapping cholera cases in the area, which showed a clear concentration of cases around the public wate...
30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...
29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction
Faraday constructed an apparatus consisting of two coils of wire wound around opposite sides of an iron ring, and when he connected one coil to a batt...
28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’...
27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States
At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression...
26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces
Exploiting intercepted Russian radio messages, which had not been encrypted, the Germans were able to anticipate the Russians’ movements and concentra...
25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles
The articles that formed the “Great Moon Hoax” stated that famed astronomer John Herschel had observed animals resembling bison, goats, and even human...
24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum
Beginning at around 1pm on 24 August, Mount Vesuvius sent gas, volcanic ash, and pumice into the stratosphere for up to 20 hours. This was followed by...
23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe
While the broader Battle of Stalingrad began on 17 July, it wasn’t until 23 August that the city itself was attacked. Over 1,000 German aircraft dropp...
22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end
The Stanley family surrounded and killed Richard III after the king chose to break ranks and target Henry Tudor ...
21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris
Vincenzo Peruggia served just six months in jail for the robbery, and was hailed by many Italians as a nationalist hero for returning the Mona Lisa to...
20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and transmit images of the surface back to Earth
Viking 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 20 August 1975 and took nearly 11 months to reach ...
19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio
Held in Dayton, Ohio, on a track measuring 1,980 feet, the first All-American Soap Box Derby attracted 362 participants and more than 40,000 ...
18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin
The trials of the Pendle Witches are not only some of the most famous but also some of the best recorded witch trials in British history, and represen...
17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom
Subtitled “A Fairy Story,” the Animal Farm used a farmyard allegory to critique totalitarianism, particularly the rise and betrayal of the ideals of t...
16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by ...
15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people
The Beatles were first flown by helicopter to a nearby helipad and then driven to Shea Stadium in an armoured van where they performed a 30 minute set...
14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union
Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to ac...
13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés
The Aztec defence was led by the Emperor Cuauhtémoc but, despite determined resistance, the defenders were gradually overwhelmed and Cuauhtémoc was ca...
12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer
The IBM PC quickly became a commercial success and a standard in the emerging personal computer industry, establishing a broad market based on the IBM...