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HistoryPod

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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-winning www.mrallsophistory.com

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Episodes (491)

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is ov...

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3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to...

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1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

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31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entent...

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Episodes (491)

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is ov...

3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to...

1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entent...

30th August 1813: Red Stick Creek warriors attack Fort Mims in the Mississippi T...

29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treat...

28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi

27th August 1916: Romania enters the First World War by declaring war on Austria...

26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the Engl...

24th August 1814: The Burning of Washington sees British forces during the War o...

23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antone...

22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-...

21st August 1945: The Demon Core fatally irradiates physicist Harry Daghlian dur...

20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico

19th August 1989: The Pan-European Picnic opens the Cold War border between Hung...

18th August 1940: “The Hardest Day” of the Battle of Britain during the Second W...

17th August 1836: Parliament passes the 1836 Marriage Act, allowing non-Anglican...

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

15th August 1969: Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm...

14th August 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter

13th August 1876: The premiere of Wagner’s complete Ring cycle takes place in Ge...

12th August 1977: Space Shuttle Enterprise completes the first free flight of th...

11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Eber...

10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first t...

9th August 1944: Smokey Bear, the forest fire prevention mascot, first appears o...

8th August 1969: The Beatles pose for an album cover on the Abbey Road zebra cro...

7th August 1909: Alice Ramsey makes the first female transcontinental car journe...

6th August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law during t...

5th August 1305: William Wallace captured by English troops at Robroyston

4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms

3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “...

2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae

1st August 1714: George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Brit...

31st July 1971: David Scott and James Irwin drive the first Lunar Roving Vehicle...

30th July 1792: La Marseillaise, the future French national anthem, first sung i...

29th July 1567: James VI crowned king of Scotland at just 13 months old

28th July 1755: Expulsion of the Acadians agreed by British Lieutenant Governor...

27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare

26th July 1745: First ever women’s cricket match played near Guildford

25th July 1792: Brunswick Manifesto during the French Revolution threatened reta...

24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing unveiled in the Belgian city...

23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under hi...

22nd July 1894: World’s first organised automobile race takes place between Pari...

21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolutio...

20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully land on the surface...

19th July 1843: The ship SS Great Britain designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel la...

18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect...

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the...

16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms B...