388 Episoade

  1. 19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

    Publicat: 19.09.2024
  2. 18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

    Publicat: 18.09.2024
  3. 17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

    Publicat: 17.09.2024
  4. 16th September 1979: Two families escape from East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

    Publicat: 16.09.2024
  5. 15th September 1440: Gilles de Rais is arrested and later convicted as one of the world’s earliest serial killers

    Publicat: 15.09.2024
  6. 14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

    Publicat: 14.09.2024
  7. 13th September 1848: Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an explosion propels a large iron bar completely through his head

    Publicat: 13.09.2024
  8. 12th September 490 BCE: Battle of Marathon is fought during the Greco-Persian Wars (accepted date)

    Publicat: 12.09.2024
  9. 11th September 1789: Alexander Hamilton appointed US Secretary of the Treasury

    Publicat: 11.09.2024
  10. 10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans to cross the border into Austria

    Publicat: 10.09.2024
  11. 9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

    Publicat: 09.09.2024
  12. 8th September 1888: Peral, the first successful electric-powered submarine, launched by the Spanish navy

    Publicat: 08.09.2024
  13. 7th September 1695: English pirate Henry Every captures the Grand Mughal Fleet in one of the most lucrative pirate raids of all time

    Publicat: 07.09.2024
  14. 6th September 1651: Charles II of England hides in an oak tree to escape capture by Parliamentary forces following the Battle of Worcester

    Publicat: 06.09.2024
  15. 5th September 1793: The Reign of Terror begins in France during the Revolution

    Publicat: 05.09.2024
  16. 4th September 1957: Nine Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School in Arkansas

    Publicat: 04.09.2024
  17. 3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

    Publicat: 03.09.2024
  18. 2nd September 1792: September Massacres begin during the French Revolution, resulting thousands of deaths

    Publicat: 02.09.2024
  19. 1st September 1969: Libyan Revolution brings Muammar Gaddafi to power following the overthrow of King Idris I

    Publicat: 01.09.2024
  20. 31st August 1888: Discovery of the first victim of Jack the Ripper in London

    Publicat: 31.08.2024

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