HistoryPod
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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12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR
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Nov 12, 2026 |
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11th November 1620: Mayflower Compact signed to establish the government of Plymouth Colony
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Nov 11, 2026 |
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10th November 1969: Sesame Street broadcast for the first time on American television
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Nov 10, 2026 |
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9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany
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Nov 09, 2026 |
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8th November 1602: Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford formally opened
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Nov 08, 2026 |
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7th November 1492: Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact
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Nov 07, 2026 |
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6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey
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Nov 06, 2026 |
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5th November 1688: William of Orange lands in England to begin the invasion that overthrows King James II in the Glorious Revolution
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Nov 05, 2026 |
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4th November 1979: Iran hostage crisis begins when Iranian students storm the American Embassy in Tehran
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Nov 04, 2026 |
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3rd November 1534: English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy
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Nov 03, 2026 |
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2nd November 1917: Balfour Declaration gives support to the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine
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Nov 02, 2026 |
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1st November 1512: Michelangelo’s ceiling of the Sistine Chapel unveiled
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Nov 01, 2026 |
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31st October 1913: Formal dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States
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Oct 31, 2026 |
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30th October 1858: The Bradford sweets poisoning kills at least twenty people after eating peppermint lozenges containing arsenic
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Oct 30, 2026 |
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27th October 1954: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African American general in the US Air Force
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Oct 27, 2026 |
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26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
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Oct 26, 2026 |
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25th October 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade undertaken by British forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War
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Oct 25, 2026 |
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24th October 1901: Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to deliberately go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive
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Oct 24, 2026 |
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23rd October 1739: The War of Jenkins’ Ear begins when England declare war on Spain
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris Express train crashes through a wall at the Gare Montparnasse railway station
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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21st October 1879: Thomas Edison makes a breakthrough in his attempt to develop an incandescent electric light
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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20th October 1740: Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian Succession
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama
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Oct 19, 2026 |
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18th October 1967: Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 becomes the first to enter the atmosphere of Venus and transmit scientific data back to Earth
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Oct 18, 2026 |
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17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery
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Oct 17, 2026 |
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16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record
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Oct 10, 2026 |
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9th October 1665: King Charles II moves Parliament to the University of Oxford to escape the Great Plague
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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8th October 1480: The Great Stand on the Ugra River by Ivan III
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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5th October 1962: James Bond and The Beatles each make their debut with Dr. No and Love Me Do
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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3rd October 1952: Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, its first test of an atomic bomb
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Oct 03, 2026 |
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2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office
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Oct 02, 2026 |
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1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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30th September 1960: The Flintstones broadcast for the first time as the world’s first animated sitcom
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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29th September 1789: Congress formally establishes the United States Army on the final day of its first session
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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28th September 1928: Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin, laying the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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27th September 1825: Stockton and Darlington Railway opens as the first public railway to make regular use of steam locomotives
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
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Sep 26, 2026 |
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25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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24th September 1954: Iconic AEC Routemaster London bus revealed at the Commercial Motor Show at Earl’s Court
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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23rd September 1974: BBC launches Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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21st September 1792: French First Republic begins when the National Convention formally abolish the monarchy
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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20th September 1835: The start of the Ragamuffin War in Brazil
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Sep 20, 2026 |
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19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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18th September 1870: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition to the Yellowstone region sees a large geyser they named Old Faithful.
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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17th September 1978: Camp David Accords signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian after George Harrison steps in to provide funding
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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15th September 1959: Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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9th September 1513: Battle of Flodden marks the largest battle to ever take place between Scotland and England
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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30th August 1813: Red Stick Creek warriors attack Fort Mims in the Mississippi Territory
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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27th August 1916: Romania enters the First World War by declaring war on Austria-Hungary
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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24th August 1814: The Burning of Washington sees British forces during the War of 1812 capture and set fire to many principal public buildings
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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21st August 1945: The Demon Core fatally irradiates physicist Harry Daghlian during an experiment at Los Alamos Laboratory
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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19th August 1989: The Pan-European Picnic opens the Cold War border between Hungary and Austria
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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18th August 1940: “The Hardest Day” of the Battle of Britain during the Second World War
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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17th August 1836: Parliament passes the 1836 Marriage Act, allowing non-Anglican ceremonies
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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15th August 1969: Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm near Bethel in New York
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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14th August 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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13th August 1876: The premiere of Wagner’s complete Ring cycle takes place in Germany
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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12th August 1977: Space Shuttle Enterprise completes the first free flight of the Space Shuttle programme
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Ebert signs the new constitution into law
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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9th August 1944: Smokey Bear, the forest fire prevention mascot, first appears on a poster in the United States
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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8th August 1969: The Beatles pose for an album cover on the Abbey Road zebra crossing
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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7th August 1909: Alice Ramsey makes the first female transcontinental car journey
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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6th August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law during the height of the Civil Rights movement
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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5th August 1305: William Wallace captured by English troops at Robroyston
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “The lamps are going out all over Europe…”
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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1st August 1714: George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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31st July 1971: David Scott and James Irwin drive the first Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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30th July 1792: La Marseillaise, the future French national anthem, first sung in Paris by a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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29th July 1567: James VI crowned king of Scotland at just 13 months old
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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28th July 1755: Expulsion of the Acadians agreed by British Lieutenant Governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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26th July 1745: First ever women’s cricket match played near Guildford
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Jul 26, 2026 |
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25th July 1792: Brunswick Manifesto during the French Revolution threatened retaliation if the royal family was harmed
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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22nd July 1894: World’s first organised automobile race takes place between Paris and Rouen
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully land on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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19th July 1843: The ship SS Great Britain designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel launched in Bristol
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille marks the start of the French Revolution
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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13th July 1930: Inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay during the centenary of the country’s first constitution
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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11th July 1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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10th July 1991: Boris Yeltsin is inaugurated as the first elected President of Russia
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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9th July 1971: Henry Kissinger makes a secret diplomatic trip to China
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to its lowest point during the Great Depression
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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7th July 1937: Marco Polo Bridge Incident acts as a trigger for the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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6th July 1947: The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle goes into production in the USSR
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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5th July 1948: Launch of the National Health Service in England and Wales
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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4th July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence adopted unanimously by the Second Continental Congress
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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3rd July 1938: World speed record for steam locomotives set by Number 4468 Mallard at just under 126mph
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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2nd July 1964: Civil Rights Act signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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1st July 1569: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created with the signing of the Union of Lublin
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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30th June 1934: Hitler purges the Nazi party in the Night of the Long Knives
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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29th June 2008: Apple release the iPhone
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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28th June 1838: Queen Victoria crowned at Westminster Abbey following the death of her uncle, William IV
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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27th June 1905: Mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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26th June 1974: World’s first barcode scanned on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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25th June 1967: Our World, live global television production, broadcast using satellite technology
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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24th June 1374: Dancing Plague breaks out in the German city of Aachen and continues for many weeks
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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23rd June 1314: The Battle of Bannockburn begins, resulting in a victory for Robert the Bruce against Edward II
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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22nd June 1941: Operation Barbarossa begins as German forces and their allies invade the Soviet Union during the Second World War
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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21st June 1919: German High Seas naval fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow, resulting in 52 ships being sunk
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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20th June 1789: Tennis Court Oath sworn by the French National Assembly in which they vowed not to separate until a written constitution had been established
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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19th June 1846: First officially recorded baseball game takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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18th June 1815: Battle of Waterloo heralds the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbour on board the French steamship Isère
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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16th June 1824: Reformers meet in London to establish what becomes the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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15th June 1215: Magna Carta approved by King John at Runnymede near Windsor in England
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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14th June 1645: The Battle of Naseby fought in the English Civil War
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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13th June 1917: The deadliest air raid on London of the First World War conducted by German Gotha bombers
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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10th June 1605: False Dmitry I enters Moscow and is recognised as tsar following the death of Boris Godunov
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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9th June 1815: ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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7th June 1788: Day of the Tiles breaks out in the French city of Grenoble, serving as an early precursor to the French Revolution
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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5th June 1967: Start of the Six Day War as Israel launches air strikes against the Egyptian air force
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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4th June 1916: Russian Army begins the Brusilov Offensive on the Eastern Front of the First World War
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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3rd June 1989: Tiananmen Square protesters fired on by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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2nd June 1946: Italians vote in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and turn their country into a republic
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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1st June 1980: CNN begins broadcasting as the first 24-hour news channel
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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31st May 1981: Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka burnt down during a violent attack
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May 31, 2026 |
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30th May 1431: Joan of Arc executed in the French city of Rouen for heresy
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May 30, 2026 |
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29th May 1854: Paddington Station opens as the London terminus of the Great Western Railway
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May 29, 2026 |
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28th May 1987: Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square
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May 28, 2026 |
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27th May 1199: King John of England crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
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May 27, 2026 |
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26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit
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May 26, 2026 |
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25th May 1961: US President John F. Kennedy announces his plans for a manned moon landing before the end of the decade
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May 25, 2026 |
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24th May 1956: First Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Lugano, Switzerland
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May 24, 2026 |
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23rd May 1701: Captain Kidd, the Scottish privateer, executed in London after being convicted of piracy and murder
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May 23, 2026 |
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22nd May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the First Battle of St Albans between Richard, Duke of York, and King Henry VI
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May 22, 2026 |
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21st May 1972: Laszlo Toth attacks and seriously damages Michelangelo’s Pietà statue
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May 21, 2026 |
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20th May 325: First Council of Nicaea brings together bishops from across the early Christian world
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May 20, 2026 |
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19th May 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I
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May 19, 2026 |
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18th May 1291: The Siege of Acre saw the Muslim forces of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil seize control of the Crusader-controlled city
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May 18, 2026 |
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17th May 1954: U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
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May 17, 2026 |
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16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China when Mao releases the ‘May 16th Notification’
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May 16, 2026 |
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15th May 1928: Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear in their first cartoon to be shown to a cinema audience
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May 15, 2026 |
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14th May 1932: “We Want Beer” parade takes place in New York City to protest against prohibition
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May 14, 2026 |
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13th May 1950: First #Formula1 World Championship Grand Prix race at Silverstone
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May 13, 2026 |
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12th May 1949: The Soviet Union ends its blockade of West Berlin
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May 12, 2026 |
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11th May 1981: The musical Cats opens at the New London Theatre in London’s West End
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May 11, 2026 |
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10th May 1941: Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of the German Nazi Party, flew from Germany to Scotland on a mission to strike a peace deal with the British government
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May 10, 2026 |
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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 |