505 Episodo

  1. 10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina

    Publicado: 10/11/2025

  2. 9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect

    Publicado: 9/11/2025

  3. 8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff

    Publicado: 8/11/2025

  4. 7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic

    Publicado: 7/11/2025

  5. 6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

    Publicado: 6/11/2025

  6. 5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term

    Publicado: 5/11/2025

  7. 4th November 1852: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

    Publicado: 4/11/2025

  8. 3rd November 1957: Laika the dog becomes the first animal to enter orbit around the Earth

    Publicado: 3/11/2025

  9. 2nd November 1795: The Directory established in France following the Thermidorian Reaction

    Publicado: 2/11/2025

  10. 1st November 1938: American racehorse Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in a direct contest between the two horses

    Publicado: 1/11/2025

  11. 31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation

    Publicado: 31/10/2025

  12. 30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

    Publicado: 30/10/2025

  13. 29th October 1923: Republic of Turkey formally proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Publicado: 29/10/2025

  14. 28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

    Publicado: 28/10/2025

  15. 27th October 1960: American singer Ben E. King records the renowned song ‘Stand By Me’

    Publicado: 27/10/2025

  16. 26th October 1861: Pony Express officially ends, only nineteen months after its first service began

    Publicado: 26/10/2025

  17. 25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt

    Publicado: 25/10/2025

  18. 24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

    Publicado: 24/10/2025

  19. 23rd October 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins in Budapest against Soviet control and the Hungarian People’s Republic

    Publicado: 23/10/2025

  20. 22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent

    Publicado: 22/10/2025

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