HistoryPod
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
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26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
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25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt
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24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis
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23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war
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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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21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster after a colliery spoil tip collapses
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20th October 1935: The 6,000 mile Long March by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ends when the troops led by Mao Zedong arrive in Shaanxi
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19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama
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18th October 1922: The British Broadcasting Company established
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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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16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
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15th October 1764: Edward Gibbon first considers The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
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13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies, supposedly after being poisoned
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12th October 1810: First Oktoberfest takes place in Munich to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
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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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10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant
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9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia
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8th October 1829: Robert Stephenson’s steam locomotive Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials to produce locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance
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6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony
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5th October 1936: The Jarrow March departs for London
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4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar
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3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
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2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office
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1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China
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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’
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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
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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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27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit
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26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
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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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24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America
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23rd September 1338: First naval battle with artillery takes place in the Hundred Years’ War
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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
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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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20th September 1066: Norwegian king Harald Hardrada defeats his northern English enemies at the Battle of Fulford
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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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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign
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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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16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian after George Harrison steps in to provide funding
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15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
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14th September 1814: The poem that provides the lyrics to the United States’ national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key
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13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
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12th September 1919: Adolf Hitler officially joins the German Workers’ Party (DAP)
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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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10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
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9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer
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8th September 1888: The very first Football League games played in England
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7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz
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