535 Episodio

  1. 31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation

    Pubblicato: 31/10/2025

  2. 30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

    Pubblicato: 30/10/2025

  3. 29th October 1923: Republic of Turkey formally proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Pubblicato: 29/10/2025

  4. 28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

    Pubblicato: 28/10/2025

  5. 27th October 1960: American singer Ben E. King records the renowned song ‘Stand By Me’

    Pubblicato: 27/10/2025

  6. 26th October 1861: Pony Express officially ends, only nineteen months after its first service began

    Pubblicato: 26/10/2025

  7. 25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt

    Pubblicato: 25/10/2025

  8. 24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

    Pubblicato: 24/10/2025

  9. 23rd October 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins in Budapest against Soviet control and the Hungarian People’s Republic

    Pubblicato: 23/10/2025

  10. 22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent

    Pubblicato: 22/10/2025

  11. 21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the British Navy under the command of Nelson defeat the combined fleets of France and Spain

    Pubblicato: 21/10/2025

  12. 20th October 1973: Sydney Opera House officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II

    Pubblicato: 20/10/2025

  13. 19th October 1935: League of Nations imposes sanctions on Italy for the invasion of Abyssinia

    Pubblicato: 19/10/2025

  14. 18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces fight for the first time

    Pubblicato: 18/10/2025

  15. 17th October 1943: The Thailand–Burma ‘Death’ Railway completed using forced labour including Allied prisoners of war

    Pubblicato: 17/10/2025

  16. 16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia

    Pubblicato: 16/10/2025

  17. 15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany in an attempt to stop the hyperinflation crisis

    Pubblicato: 15/10/2025

  18. 14th October 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle first published, containing 12 stories

    Pubblicato: 14/10/2025

  19. 13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies, supposedly after being poisoned

    Pubblicato: 13/10/2025

  20. 12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

    Pubblicato: 12/10/2025

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