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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6th September 1972: Israeli Olympic athletes killed in the Munich massacre by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group
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5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards
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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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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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2nd September 1666: The Great Fire of London begins at a bakery in Pudding Lane
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1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple
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31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente
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30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
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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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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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27th August 1928: Fifteen nations including Germany, France and the United States sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war
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26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
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25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
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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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23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu
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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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21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris
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20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
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19th August 1989: The Pan-European Picnic opens the Cold War border between Hungary and Austria
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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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17th August 1836: Parliament passes the 1836 Marriage Act, allowing non-Anglican ceremonies
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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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15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad
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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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13th August 1876: The premiere of Wagner’s complete Ring cycle takes place in Germany
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12th August 1969: The Battle of the Bogside begins in Derry, Northern Ireland
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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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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time
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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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8th August 1969: The Beatles pose for an album cover on the Abbey Road zebra crossing
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7th August 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress
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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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5th August 1305: William Wallace captured by English troops at Robroyston
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4th August 1693: French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon allegedly invents champagne
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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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2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae
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1st August 1714: George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain
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31th July 1970: Black Tot Day sees the British Royal Navy issue the last daily rum ration to sailors
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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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29th July 1567: James VI crowned king of Scotland at just 13 months old
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28th July 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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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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26th July 1745: First ever women’s cricket match played near Guildford
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25th July 1965: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival
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24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is unveiled
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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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22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison
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21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt
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20th July 1969: NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft lands on the moon
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19th July 1799: Announcement made of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone near the Egyptian town of Rashid
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