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Jul131 day agoOn the 13th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday. Marat, the second of nine children, had left home at sixteen in search ...
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Jul122 days agoMoscow’s Trinity Church, later renamed Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat and better known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral, was consecrated. Ivan the Terrible had origi...
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Jul113 days agoToday is World Fringe Day where people around the world are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the world famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which took place for the first time in 1947. HistoryPod i...
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Jul104 days agoRecorded in front of a live audience at Scrivener’s Books as part of Buxton Festival Fringe, this extended edition of HistoryPod attempts to answer the most common question from listeners: how and ...
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Jul104 days agoThe Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal Pétain. France declared war against Germany o...
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Jul095 days agoThe 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London. The Wimbledon Championship was hosted by the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club, which ha...
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Jul086 days agoWalter Haut, the public information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, issued a press release saying that the military had recovered the remains of a ‘flying disc.’ On 14 June, J.B. Foster ranc...
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Jul071 week agoIf you ever claimed that something was the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’re referring to a very particular date – the 7th July 1928. That was the day that pre-sliced and wrapped bread was...
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Jul061 week agoThe Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union. The AK-47 was designed by Soviet tank commander-turned inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov. Having been injured in the Battle ...
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Jul051 week agoOn the 5th July 1948, healthcare provision in the UK was nationalized when the National Health Service was launched. The idea was to bring together everyone involved in healthcare provision into on...
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Jul041 week agoCharles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Dodgson was a...
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Jul032 weeks agoThe world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard. Built at the Doncaster railway works of the London and North Eastern Railway in...
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Jul022 weeks agoJames A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Guiteau had attempted various types of e...
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Jul012 weeks agoOn the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages. Each stage was more than double the length of today’s equivalents, although the majority of...
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Jun302 weeks agoOn 10 November 1935 a resident of Wimpole Street called the local Welbeck telephone exchange to report a fire that had broken out in the house opposite. This was the established way of seeking the...
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Jun292 weeks agoThe 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone. Regular listeners may wonder why I’m dedicating an episode of HistoryPod to an eve...
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Jun282 weeks agoThe Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in Victoria. Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly’s father, John ‘Red’ Kelly had arrived in Australia after serving...
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Jun272 weeks agoThe crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied on the 27th June 1905, an uprising that was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film. Potemkin entered service in early 1905 after h...
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Jun263 weeks agoSharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum. Bern...
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Jun253 weeks agoOn the 25th June 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn began when American Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led federal troops against the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheye...