4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...
4 Sep 0s
3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...
3 Sep 0s
2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade
The Treaty of Jaffa established a three-year truce and confirmed that Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, although Christian pilgrims would be allowed access to the city’s holy ...
2 Sep 0s
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World ...
1 Sep 0s
31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water
Physician John Snow investigated the outbreak by mapping cholera cases in the area, which showed a clear concentration of cases around the public water pump on Broad ...
31 Aug 0s
30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...
30 Aug 0s
29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction
Faraday constructed an apparatus consisting of two coils of wire wound around opposite sides of an iron ring, and when he connected one coil to a battery a galvanometer detected a brief current induced in the second ...
29 Aug 0s
28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th ...
28 Aug 0s
