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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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 |
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6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and transmit images of the surface back to Earth
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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10th August 1961: United States begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment due to the Watergate Scandal
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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8th August 1786: Mont Blanc was successfully climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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7th August 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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6th August 1945: The United States drop an atomic bomb nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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4th August 1789: The August Decrees result in the National Constituent Assembly of France voting to abolish the feudal system
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on the voyage that takes him to the Americas
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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2nd August 1940: No. 303 Squadron, one of two Polish RAF squadrons in the Battle of Britain, formed at RAF Northolt
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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1st August 1944: Warsaw Uprising begins in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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30th July 1916: German agents trigger a major explosion at the Black Tom munitions depot in New Jersey to stop supplies to the Allies
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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29th July 1976: David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, committed his first known murder in the Bronx, New York City
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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28th July 1939: Ornate Anglo-Saxon helmet uncovered at the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk, England
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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27th July 1942: Allied forces in North Africa stop the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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26th July 1945: Britain, the USA, and China issue the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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25th July 1965: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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12th July 1790: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed by the National Constituent Assembly of France
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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8th July 1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on the first known voyage to India from Europe
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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7th July 1928: Pre-sliced and wrapped bread first sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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6th July 1988: Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed by a series of explosions in the deadliest offshore oil disaster in history
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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5th July 1865: United States Secret Service established in Washington, D.C., by the Department of the Treasury
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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3rd July 1973: David Bowie announces the end of Ziggy Stardust during a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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2nd July 1881: American President James A. Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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1st July 1979: Sony Corporation releases the Walkman portable cassette player in Japan
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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30th June 1894: Tower Bridge in London officially opened by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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28th June 1935: United States approves the construction of a vault to hold the country’s gold reserves at Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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26th June 1794: French army makes the first recorded military use of an aircraft for reconnaissance during the Battle of Fleurus
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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24th June 1509: Henry VIII crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey in London
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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23rd June 1757: British East India Company troops defeat the Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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22nd June 1942: The words of the Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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21st June 1675: Foundation stone laid for the new St Paul’s Cathedral in London following the Great Fire of London
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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20th June 1948: The Western Allies introduce the Deutsche Mark in the three western zones of occupied Germany
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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19th June 1949: The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race takes place at Charlotte Speedway
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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18th June 1984: The Battle of Orgreave takes place between miners and police officers during the UK miners’ strike
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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16th June 1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space on board Vostock 6
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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15th June 1970: Trial of Charles Manson begins in Los Angeles, California, for conspiracy to commit murder
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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14th June 1777: Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Resolution and adopts the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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13th June 313: The Edict of Milan formally ends the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives her famous diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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10th June 1829: The first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race takes place at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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9th June 68: Emperor Nero commits suicide
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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8th June 1968: James Earl Ray arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in connection with the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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7th June 1832: The Great Reform Act becomes law, significantly changing the electoral system of the UK
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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6th June 1822: ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’ William Beaumont first treats Alexis St Martin
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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5th June 1963: John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, resigns following a political scandal caused by his extramarital affair
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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4th June 1411: King Charles VI of France grants the exclusive right to ripen Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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2nd June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi files a patent application for his system of wireless telegraphy
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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1st June 1946: Ion Antonescu, the former Prime Minister of Romania, executed by firing squad
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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31st May 1916: Battle of Jutland begins in the North Sea, marking the largest naval battle of the First World War
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May 31, 2025 |
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30th May 1899: Female bandit Pearl Hart and her partner, Joe Boot, commit one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies
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May 30, 2025 |
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29th May 1660: Charles II restored to the English throne, marking the end of over a decade of republican rule
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May 29, 2025 |
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28th May 1754: Battle of Jumonville Glen in Pennsylvania marks the beginning of the French and Indian War
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May 28, 2025 |
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27th May 1703: The foundation of St Petersburg by Tsar Peter the Great
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May 27, 2025 |
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26th May 1923: First 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race begins, establishing the endurance racing format
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May 26, 2025 |
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25th May 1977: The first Star Wars film is released in cinemas
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May 25, 2025 |
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24th May 1943: Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, transferred to Auschwitz
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May 24, 2025 |
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23rd May 1949: West Germany formally established, otherwise known as the Federal Republic of Germany
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May 23, 2025 |
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22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent
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May 22, 2025 |
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21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman
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May 21, 2025 |
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20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
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May 20, 2025 |
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19th May 1922: Young Pioneer organisation formally established in the USSR
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May 19, 2025 |
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18th May 1848: The Frankfurt Parliament opens at St. Paul’s Church as the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany
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May 18, 2025 |
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17th May 1756: The Seven Years’ War begins, when Great Britain formally declares war on France
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May 17, 2025 |
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16th May 1960: The first laser was successfully operated by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
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May 16, 2025 |
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15th May 1940: The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in San Bernadino, California
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May 15, 2025 |
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14th May 1878: The last witchcraft trial in the United States was held in Salem, Massachusetts
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May 14, 2025 |
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13th May 1861: Queen Victoria issues a “Proclamation of Neutrality” concerning the American Civil War
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May 13, 2025 |
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12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California
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May 12, 2025 |
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11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions
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May 11, 2025 |
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10th May 1869: The ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
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May 10, 2025 |
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9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels
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May 09, 2025 |
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8th May 1950: The Tollund Man, who lived in the 5th century BC, discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg in Denmark
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May 08, 2025 |
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7th May 1794: Cult of the Supreme Being formally announced by Robespierre in a meeting of the National Convention
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May 07, 2025 |
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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries
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May 06, 2025 |
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5th May 1789: The Estates General meets at Versailles, near Paris, for the first time in 175 years
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May 05, 2025 |
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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students
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May 04, 2025 |
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3rd May 1921: Partition of Ireland divides Ireland into two separate political entities
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May 03, 2025 |
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2nd May 1670: Hudson’s Bay Company established with a royal charter from King Charles II of England
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May 02, 2025 |
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1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt
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May 01, 2025 |
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30th April 1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty concluded between the United States and France
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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29th April 1587: Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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28th April 1967: Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, refuses induction into the United States Army
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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27th April 1945: Benito Mussolini, the former Fascist dictator of Italy, captured by Italian partisans in northern Italy
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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21st April 1526: First Battle of Panipat marks the beginning of Mughal rule in India and the end of the Lodi dynasty
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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20th April 1965: Houston Astrodome’s skylight windows painted to reduce glare from the sun
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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19th April 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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18th April 1942: The Doolittle Raid marks the first American air operation to strike the Japanese mainland
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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17th April 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion launched by Brigade 2506
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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16th April 1746: The Battle of Culloden takes place near Inverness, Scotland, ending the Jacobite Rising of 1745
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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15th April 1861: President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to suppress the growing insurrection in the southern states
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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14th April 70 CE: Titus begins the Siege of Jerusalem
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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13th April 1953: Project MK-Ultra human experimentation program granted approval by Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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11th April 1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his commands in Korean and Japan
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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15th March 1848: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 begins in Pest, marking the start of a nationwide movement against Habsburg rule
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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3rd March 1938: First commercial quantities of oil discovered in Saudi Arabia after engineers drill Dammam Well No. 7
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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27th February 1900: Labour Representation Committee founded, marking the start of what would later become the British Labour Party
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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26th February 1935: Daventry Experiment proves the ability of using radio waves to detect aircraft, heralding the development of radar
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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23rd February 1903: US President Theodore Roosevelt leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in perpetuity
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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21st February 1804: World’s first recorded locomotive-hauled railway journey takes place at the Penydarren Ironworks in South Wales
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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17th February 1936: ‘The Phantom’ comic strip published for the first time, widely regarded as the first costumed superhero
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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15th February 1965: Canada officially adopts its national flag of a red maple leaf on a white square between two vertical red bars
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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13th February 1945: Allied bombing of Dresden begins during the final months of World War II
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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12th February 1963: Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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11th February 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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10th February 1940: First Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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8th February 1950: The Stasi formally established in East Germany as the Ministry for State Security
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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7th February 1964: The Beatles arrive in the United States for their first appearance on national television
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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6th February 1819: Modern Singapore established with the signing of the Treaty of Singapore
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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5th February 1924: Greenwich time signal ‘pips’ broadcast by the BBC for the first time
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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4th February 1703: Forty six of the Forty-Seven Rōnin commit seppuku after avenging the death of their master
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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3rd February 1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper killed in a plane crash known as ‘The Day the Music Died’
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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2nd February 1925: Great Race of Mercy delivers diptheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled relay
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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1st February 1968: Viet Cong Captain Bảy Lốp executed by General Loan
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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30th January 1661: Oliver Cromwell posthumously executed, two and a half years after his death
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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29th January 1886: Karl Benz patents his Motorwagen, widely regarded as the world’s first automobile
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures
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Jan 27, 2025 |