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-…
Giuseppe Garibaldi met with Victor Emmanuel II, the King of Sardinia, at Teano and handed him control of southern ...
Although the scale of panic selling did slow down, the market continued its downward trajectory for over 2 ...
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich ...
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute ...
The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ...
Maria Theresa inherited the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian ...
When Abyssinia was finally captured on 5 May, all the sanctions were ...
European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda ...
Having been found guilty of treason, she was instead sentenced to death and transported to the guillotine in an open ...
The new currency was backed by land that was used by businesses and agriculture, and was introduced at the rate of one Rentenmark to one trillion ...
Harold was killed on the battlefield and, although his exact cause of death isn't known, it signalled the collapse of the ...
The White House was built as part of the development of the Federal City – a national capital founded under the terms of the 1790 Residence ...
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World ...
Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC's Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard ...
Frustrated by the lack of progress made by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from whom the group had split, the WSPU soon became known for its militant and sometimes violent actions under the motto ‘Deeds, not ...
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan ...
The Great Stand on the Ugra River marked the start of the decline of the Great ...
The establishment of the GDR ensured that the division of Germany that had been implemented in 1945 was made ...
On the 6th October 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that was enraged by the peace treaty he had negotiated with ...
Two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No, the first of the James Bond series of films, hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut single ‘Love Me ...
The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley's British Union of ...
At midnight on 3 October the black, red and gold flag of West Germany was raised above the Brandenburg Gate which had previously divided the two ...
In return for the crusaders' unconditional surrender, Saladin agreed that anyone who paid a ransom would be able to leave the city in ...
Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world ...
The Battle of the Baggage saw the defeat of an army from the powerful Umayyad Caliphate by Turgesh ...
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially ...
William, duke of Normandy, landed in England to begin the Norman ...
The shortest papacy in history ended after just twelve days following the death of Pope Urban VII, shortly after he introduced Europe's first smoking ...
Despite the anger from some Germans, Stresemann's actions laid the foundation for the economic recovery that Germany experienced up until the onset of the Great ...
Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each ...
Truman later ordered all copies to be brought to him and locked away since the content was a serious threat to US-Soviet ...
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide ...
The war persisted for nearly eight long and bloody years, leading to the deaths of an estimated half a million soldiers and the same number of ...
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at ...
The Ragamuffin War began when Brazilian rebels in the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul captured Porto ...
The Illuminations at the British seaside resort of Blackpool were turned on for the first ...
The Chinese government appealed to the League of Nations for assistance, and the League promptly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Japanese ...
The San Francisco Bulletin printed his decree in full, sparking media interest that led to him becoming a celebrity in the ...
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón's second term as ...
The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...
On the 14th September 1814, the poem that was to provide the lyrics for the United States' national anthem was written by 35 year-old Francis Scott ...
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...
Alexander Hamilton was made the first United States Secretary of the Treasury by President George ...
Hungary had been inundated with East Germans since the government began removing the border fence in ...
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA's most popular television show, for the first ...
The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, ...
Warbeck had convinced his followers that he was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘Princes in the ...
The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet that circumnavigated the ...
The Reign of Terror began in France when Bertrand Barère, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, made a speech in favour of it that ended with the exclamation, “Let's make terror the order of the ...
The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President ...
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