505 Episodo

  1. 1st October 1928: The USSR introduces the first five-year plan under Joseph Stalin

    Publicado: 1/10/2025

  2. 30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage

    Publicado: 30/9/2025

  3. 29th September 1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire according to newspapers in the USA

    Publicado: 29/9/2025

  4. 28th September 1066: William of Normandy lands in England

    Publicado: 28/9/2025

  5. 27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit

    Publicado: 27/9/2025

  6. 26th September 1687: An explosion rips through the Parthenon in Athens while it’s being used as a gunpowder magazine

    Publicado: 26/9/2025

  7. 25th September 1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World

    Publicado: 25/9/2025

  8. 24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America

    Publicado: 24/9/2025

  9. 23rd September 1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed Minister-President of Prussia by King Wilhelm I

    Publicado: 23/9/2025

  10. 22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published

    Publicado: 22/9/2025

  11. 21st September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit first published in the United Kingdom

    Publicado: 21/9/2025

  12. 20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII

    Publicado: 20/9/2025

  13. 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

    Publicado: 19/9/2025

  14. 18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

    Publicado: 18/9/2025

  15. 17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash

    Publicado: 17/9/2025

  16. 16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

    Publicado: 16/9/2025

  17. 15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

    Publicado: 15/9/2025

  18. 14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah

    Publicado: 14/9/2025

  19. 13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

    Publicado: 13/9/2025

  20. 12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody

    Publicado: 12/9/2025

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