570 Episoade

  1. 16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

    Publicat: 16.09.2025

  2. 15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

    Publicat: 15.09.2025

  3. 14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah

    Publicat: 14.09.2025

  4. 13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

    Publicat: 13.09.2025

  5. 12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody

    Publicat: 12.09.2025

  6. 11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution

    Publicat: 11.09.2025

  7. 10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

    Publicat: 10.09.2025

  8. 9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

    Publicat: 09.09.2025

  9. 8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina

    Publicat: 08.09.2025

  10. 7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising

    Publicat: 07.09.2025

  11. 6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

    Publicat: 06.09.2025

  12. 5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West

    Publicat: 05.09.2025

  13. 4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

    Publicat: 04.09.2025

  14. 3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand

    Publicat: 03.09.2025

  15. 2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade

    Publicat: 02.09.2025

  16. 1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War

    Publicat: 01.09.2025

  17. 31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water

    Publicat: 31.08.2025

  18. 30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

    Publicat: 30.08.2025

  19. 29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction

    Publicat: 29.08.2025

  20. 28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

    Publicat: 28.08.2025

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