2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office
United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...
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1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China
The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known as the Kuomintang, since shortly after the end of the Second World ...
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30th September 1967: Launch of BBC Radio 1 with the words ‘…and, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1’
Radio 1’s target demographic was, and has continued to be, the 15-29 year old age group which means the music it broadcasts has evolved throughout the station’s ...
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29th September 1938: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reach an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland
Seen by many as the ultimate act of failed appeasement, the Munich Agreement was tabled on 29 September and signed in the early hours of the next ...
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28th September 1928: Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin, laying the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine
Fleming found that a petri dish containing staphylococci bacteria had been contaminated with an unidentified fungus. The bacteria around the fungus had been destroyed, whereas bacteria that were further away ...
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27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model ...
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26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...
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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
Balboa's journey involved battling with native tribes and forging a way through thick jungle, before reaching the mountain range along the Chucunaque River from where he first saw the Pacific Ocean on the morning of 25 ...
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