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By Scott Allsop
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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-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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9th May 1887: Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West Brompton
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May 09, 2026 |
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8th May 1429: Siege of Orléans lifted by French forces, marking a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War
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May 08, 2026 |
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7th May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by the German U-Boat, U-20
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May 07, 2026 |
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6th May 1937: Hindenburg Disaster sees the German passenger airship LZ 129 engulfed in flames following a mid-air explosion
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May 06, 2026 |
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5th May 1862: Mexican forces defeat a French army at the Battle of Puebla, commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo
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May 05, 2026 |
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4th May 1932: Al Capone begins life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
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May 04, 2026 |
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3rd May 1830: World’s first steam-powered passenger service begins operating on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway
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May 03, 2026 |
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2nd May 1982: Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War
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May 02, 2026 |
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1st May 1952: The first Mr Potato Head ‘funny face toy’ goes on sale
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May 01, 2026 |
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30th April 1963: The Bristol Bus Boycott against discriminatory recruitment begins
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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29th April 1992: Los Angeles riots begin following the acquittal of four police officers charged with the beating of Rodney King
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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28th April 1923: Wembley Stadium in London opens with the ‘White Horse Final’ of the FA Cup between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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27th April 1906: The Russian Empire’s State Duma meets for the first time
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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26th April 1925: Paul von Hindenburg elected President of the Weimar Republic
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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25th April 404 BCE: Sparta defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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24th April 1916: Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions set off in James Caird, a recovered lifeboat, to sail from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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23rd April 2005: “Me at the zoo” is the first video to be uploaded to YouTube
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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21st April 1918: Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shot down and killed
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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20th April 1968: Enoch Powell delivers his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech on immigration
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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19th April 1839: The Treaty of London establishes an independent Belgium
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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17th April 1951: Peak District in northern England formally designated the United Kingdom’s first National Park
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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16th April 1922: Former WW1 enemies Germany and Russia sign the Treaty of Rapallo
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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15th April 1755: Samuel Johnson publishes ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ in London
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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14th April 1935: Stresa Front signed between the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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12th April 1945: Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States when his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies while having his portrait painted
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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11th April 1979: The rule of Idi Amin in Uganda ends when opposing forces capture the capital city of Kampala
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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10th April 1858: Big Ben, the bell inside the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster, was cast
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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8th April 1820: Venus de Milo statue discovered on the Greek island of Milos in the Aegean Sea
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intended to test his holiness
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens.
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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5th April 1958: Ripple Rock underwater mountain destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear explosions
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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4th April 1968: Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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3rd April 1860: The first Pony Express service goes into operation
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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2nd April 1968: Science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey receives its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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1st April 1924: Adolf Hitler found guilty of treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch and sentenced to five years in jail
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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31st March 1905: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany lands in Morocco where his speech prompts the First Moroccan Crisis
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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30th March 1981: Attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C.
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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29th March 1974: Discovery of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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28th March 1871: The Paris Commune proclaimed, and Council met for the first time
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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27th March 1958: Nikita Khrushchev consolidates his power over the USSR as Chairman of the Council of Ministers
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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25th March 1957: Treaty of Rome signed, which laid the foundations for the European Economic Community
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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24th March 1882: Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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23rd March 1806: The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins its return journey
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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21st March 1804: The Napoleonic Code, officially known as the Civil Code of the French, comes into effect in France
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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20th March 1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany formally accepts Otto von Bismarck’s resignation
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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18th March 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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15th March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne, ending more than three centuries of Romanov rule
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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12th March 1933: The first “fireside chat” delivered by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the radio
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant, Thomas Watson
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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9th March 1945: USAF begin Operation Meetinghouse, the firebombing of Tokyo in the most destructive bombing raid in history
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters production, also known as the Transporter or Bus
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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6th March 1820: The Missouri Compromise passed by the United States Congress to resolve disagreements over slavery in the western territories
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic world results in the Safarnama
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time, and the United States Constitution goes into effect
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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3rd March 1878: Treaty of San Stefano lays the foundations for modern Bulgaria by ending five centuries of Ottoman control
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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1st March 1692: Salem witch trials begin in Massachusetts
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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28th February 202 BCE: The Han dynasty formally established in China by Liu Bang, later known as Emperor Gaozu
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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27th February 1933: Reichstag building in Berlin set on fire in an arson attack
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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26th February 1870: Beach Pneumatic Transit opens in New York as the first successful underground railway in the United States
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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25th February 1956: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivers his ‘secret speech’ announcing the start of de-Stalinization
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates the throne amidst revolutions that were beginning to sweep across the continent
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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23rd February 1905: The world’s first Rotary Club founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Paul P. Harris
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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22nd February 1943: First three members of the White Rose resistance group put on trial and executed by guillotine in Nazi Germany
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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21st February 1848: The Communist Manifesto anonymously published in London by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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20th February 1962: Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth aboard the spacecraft Friendship 7
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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19th February 1985: EastEnders, the BBC’s flagship soap opera, broadcast for the first time
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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18th February 1930: Nellie Jay, better known as Elm Farm Ollie, becomes the first cow to fly and be milked in an aeroplane
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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17th February 1913: The Armory Show, officially called the International Exhibition of Modern Art, opens in New York City
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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16th February 1923: Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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15th February 1971: Decimal Day in the United Kingdom and Ireland as they abandon their old currency of pounds, shillings and pence
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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14th February 1949: The first Knesset, the parliament of the State of Israel, convenes for the first time in Jerusalem
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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13th February 1689: William and Mary become the new co-regents of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland after agreeing to the Declaration of Right
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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12th February 1429: Battle of the Herrings in the Hundred Years’ War fought between French and English forces near the French village of Rouvray
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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11th February 1929: The Lateran Treaty signed between the Italian state and the Roman Catholic Church
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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8th February 1867: The Ausgleich, or the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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2nd February 1887: First officially recorded Groundhog Day observance takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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31st January 1990: McDonald’s opens its first fast food restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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30th January 1975: Rubik’s Cube first patented by Hungarian architect and designer Ernő Rubik
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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29th January 1856: The Victoria Cross medal for valour introduced by Queen Victoria
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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28th January 1986: NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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27th January 1973: Paris Peace Accords end direct United States military involvement in the Vietnam War
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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26th January 1564: Pope Pius IV confirms the decrees of the Council of Trent
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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25th January 1890: American journalist Nellie Bly arrives in New Jersey after completing a 72-day solo journey around the world
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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24th January 1890: The Shigir Idol, the oldest wooden sculpture in the world, discovered in Russia
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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23rd January 1556: The deadliest earthquake ever recorded hit the Chinese province of Shaanxi and surrounding areas
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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21st January 1968: United States B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear bombs crashes near Thule Air Base in Greenland
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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18th January 1778: Captain James Cook becomes the first known European to encounter the Hawaiian Islands
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War begins when Operation Desert Storm is launched
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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15th January 1867: 40 people die when ice on the boating lake in Regent’s Park breaks while they are skating
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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13th January 1935: The Territory of the Saar Basin voted in a plebiscite to reunite with Germany
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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12th January 1913: The name “Stalin” meaning “man of steel” first used in print by Joseph Dzhugashvili
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched into Germany and occupied the industrial Ruhr area
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River on his march to Rome
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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9th January 1806: State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson takes place in London, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson outlines his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture the capital city Phnom Penh
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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6th January 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out the “Four Freedoms” in his State of the Union address
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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5th January 1968: The Prague Spring begins with Alexander Dubček becoming the new leader of Czechoslovakia
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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3rd January 1868: Meiji Restoration begins in Japan when loyalists seize control of the Kyoto Imperial Palace
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of détente after the USSR invades Afghanistan
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place inside a model of an Iguanodon at the Crystal Palace Park in south London
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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5th December 1934: The Walwal Incident lays the foundations for the Abyssinia Crisis
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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4th December 1676: Battle of Lund fought between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, one of the bloodiest battles in Scandinavia
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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3rd December 1910: The world’s first neon light was turned on for the public at the Paris Motor Show
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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2nd December 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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1st December 1934: Assassination of Sergei Kirov, one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Communist Party
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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29th November 1850: The Declaration of Olmütz signed by Prussia and Austria
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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4th November 1852: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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3rd November 1957: Laika the dog becomes the first animal to enter orbit around the Earth
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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2nd November 1795: The Directory established in France following the Thermidorian Reaction
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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1st November 1938: American racehorse Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in a direct contest between the two horses
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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29th October 1923: Republic of Turkey formally proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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27th October 1960: American singer Ben E. King records the renowned song ‘Stand By Me’
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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26th October 1861: Pony Express officially ends, only nineteen months after its first service began
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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23rd October 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins in Budapest against Soviet control and the Hungarian People’s Republic
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the British Navy under the command of Nelson defeat the combined fleets of France and Spain
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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20th October 1973: Sydney Opera House officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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19th October 1935: League of Nations imposes sanctions on Italy for the invasion of Abyssinia
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces fight for the first time
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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17th October 1943: The Thailand–Burma ‘Death’ Railway completed using forced labour including Allied prisoners of war
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany in an attempt to stop the hyperinflation crisis
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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14th October 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle first published, containing 12 stories
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies, supposedly after being poisoned
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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11th October 1986: Reykjavík Summit takes place between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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8th October 1856: Second Opium War begins after the arrest of the crew of the Arrow, a Chinese-owned but British-registered cargo boat
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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7th October 1949: The creation of East Germany, formally known as the German Democratic Republic
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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5th October 1914: First recorded aerial combat victory takes place when a French Voisin shoots down a German Aviatik aircraft
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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4th October 1936: The Battle of Cable Street took place in London’s East End
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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3rd October 1990: East and West Germany reunified when the German Democratic Republic joins with the Federal Republic of Germany
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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2nd October 1766: Nottingham Cheese Riot takes place at the city’s Goose Fair, triggered by rising food prices
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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1st October 1928: The USSR introduces the first five-year plan under Joseph Stalin
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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29th September 1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire according to newspapers in the USA
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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28th September 1066: William of Normandy lands in England
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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26th September 1687: An explosion rips through the Parthenon in Athens while it’s being used as a gunpowder magazine
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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25th September 1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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23rd September 1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed Minister-President of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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21st September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit first published in the United Kingdom
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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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
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising
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Sep 07, 2025 |