505 Episodo

  1. 11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution

    Publicado: 11/9/2025

  2. 10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

    Publicado: 10/9/2025

  3. 9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

    Publicado: 9/9/2025

  4. 8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina

    Publicado: 8/9/2025

  5. 7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising

    Publicado: 7/9/2025

  6. 6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

    Publicado: 6/9/2025

  7. 5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West

    Publicado: 5/9/2025

  8. 4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

    Publicado: 4/9/2025

  9. 3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand

    Publicado: 3/9/2025

  10. 2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade

    Publicado: 2/9/2025

  11. 1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War

    Publicado: 1/9/2025

  12. 31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water

    Publicado: 31/8/2025

  13. 30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

    Publicado: 30/8/2025

  14. 29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction

    Publicado: 29/8/2025

  15. 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.

    Publicado: 28/8/2025

  16. 27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States

    Publicado: 27/8/2025

  17. 26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces

    Publicado: 26/8/2025

  18. 25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles

    Publicado: 25/8/2025

  19. 24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum

    Publicado: 24/8/2025

  20. 23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe

    Publicado: 23/8/2025

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