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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Nov 14, 2026
The Luftwaffe's bombers dropped more than 500 tonnes of high-explosive bombs, approximately 30,000 incendiary devices and a number of large parachute mines on the English city of…
Nov 13, 2026
While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice's Day Massacre are ...
Nov 12, 2026
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of ...
Nov 11, 2026
The Mayflower Compact established laws and offices for the general good of the ...
Nov 10, 2026
Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal ...
Nov 9, 2026
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia after the German Revolution took ...
Nov 8, 2026
The restored library initially contained several thousand volumes, including manuscripts and printed books acquired by Bodley and other ...
Nov 7, 2026
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of ...
Nov 6, 2026
Despite the absence of regulation and structured plays, the match turned out to be fiercely competitive. While the scoring was different from modern football, Rutgers won ...
Nov 5, 2026
William initially moved towards Exeter and, as William’s advance continued towards London, James struggled to organise an effective response. He was eventually allowed to leave…
Nov 4, 2026
The students seized 66 hostages, 14 of whom were released before the end of the crisis. The other 52 hostages were held for 444 ...
Nov 3, 2026
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of ...
Nov 2, 2026
Zionists regarded the Balfour Declaration as an important recognition of their national aspirations, while many Palestinian Arabs argued that it threatened their political and…
Nov 1, 2026
The public saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the first time when Pope Julius II celebrated All Saints Day ...
Oct 31, 2026
The Lincoln Highway connected New York City on the East Coast to San Francisco on the West Coast, traversing 13 states along the ...
Oct 30, 2026
“Humbug Billy”, bought his stock from the confectioner Joseph Neal who made peppermint lozenges using powdered gypsum in place of some of the relatively expensive sugar, but he…
Oct 27, 2026
His promotion to brigadier general on 27 October 1954 came six years after President Truman ordered the desegregation of the US military, and made him the first African American…
Oct 26, 2026
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, ...
Oct 25, 2026
Due to miscommunication and a lack of clear orders Lord Cardigan led the Light Brigade, a cavalry unit consisting of approximately 670 horsemen, in a frontal assault against a…
Oct 24, 2026
Taylor had a specially constructed barrel built of oak, reinforced with iron bands, and fitted with internal padding. She survived the plunge with just some bruising and a small…
Oct 23, 2026
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich ...
Oct 22, 2026
The Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform in Paris, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop…
Oct 21, 2026
The breakthrough came when the team used carbonised cotton thread as a filament. A lamp that was initially illuminated on 21st October stayed lit for more than thirteen hours,…
Oct 20, 2026
Maria Theresa inherited the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian ...
Oct 19, 2026
After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle…
Oct 18, 2026
Instruments on board Venera 4 measured temperature, pressure, and the composition of the surrounding gases, with the results transmitted by radio to receiving stations on ...
Oct 17, 2026
Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight ...
Oct 16, 2026
The light cruiser HMS Southampton and the destroyer Mohawk were damaged, while sixteen Royal Navy sailors died and 44 were ...
Oct 15, 2026
Napoleon was exiled to the island of St Helena, situated roughly halfway between Africa and South America, where he lived for six years before his ...
Oct 14, 2026
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...
Oct 13, 2026
As she was accompanied through the Members’ Lobby, Travers Symons broke away from her escort and burst into the chamber where MPs were debating a bill regarding issues related to…
Oct 12, 2026
Cyrus the Great’s Persian forces defeated the Babylonians at the Battle of Opis before entering Babylon on 12 October, bringing the Neo-Babylonian Empire to an end. He…
Oct 11, 2026
The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther…
Oct 10, 2026
At around 6am on 10 October the hurricane made landfall at Barbados in the Lesser Antilles, where it unleashed its full fury as it moved through the ...
Oct 9, 2026
Charles opened the fifth session of the Cavalier Parliament in the Great Hall at Christ Church College in Oxford, having left London to escape the Great ...
Oct 8, 2026
The Great Stand on the Ugra River marked the start of the decline of the Great ...
Oct 7, 2026
Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...
Oct 6, 2026
The Jazz Singer demonstrated to a large audience that recorded dialogue could be incorporated successfully into a commercial feature film. It used the Vitaphone system that…
Oct 5, 2026
Two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No, the first of the James Bond series of films, hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut…
Oct 4, 2026
By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to ...
Oct 3, 2026
The bomb was successfully detonated at 8 a.m., making Britain the third country to successfully develop and detonate a nuclear weapon, after the United States and Soviet ...
Oct 2, 2026
United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...
Oct 1, 2026
The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known…
Sep 30, 2026
The Flintstones attracted strong ratings, demonstrating that an animated series could compete with live-action programmes in an evening schedule and establishing Hanna-Barbera as…
Sep 29, 2026
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially ...
Sep 28, 2026
Fleming found that a petri dish containing staphylococci bacteria had been contaminated with an unidentified fungus. The bacteria around the fungus had been destroyed, whereas…
Sep 27, 2026
The railway was developed by to improve the transport of coal from inland collieries to Darlington and the port at ...
Sep 26, 2026
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...
Sep 25, 2026
The Battle of Stamford Bridge saw both sides suffer heavy casualties but, with Harald Hardrada slain in battle, the English emerged ...
Sep 24, 2026
The vehicle, designated RM1, was conceived by London Transport to replace its extensive trolleybus network with motor buses and was developed in conjunction with the Associated…
Sep 23, 2026
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide ...
Sep 22, 2026
Hale volunteered to gather intelligence on British troop movements and strategies but was captured, swiftly subjected to a trial by British authorities, found guilty of spying,…
Sep 21, 2026
The Convention unanimously decreed that ‘royalty is abolished in France’ and subsequently ordered that official documents should be dated from ‘the first year of the French…
Sep 20, 2026
The Ragamuffin War began when Brazilian rebels in the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul captured Porto ...
Sep 19, 2026
The German forces reached the outskirts of the French capital on 15 September and General Helmuth von Moltke, the commander of the Prussian army, gave the order to begin…
Sep 18, 2026
Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and several geyser basins where they encountered numerous geothermal features, including the geyser that they named Old Faithful due to…
Sep 17, 2026
The talks concluded with the signing of two separate agreements – ‘A Framework for Peace in the Middle East’ and ‘A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt…
Sep 16, 2026
Claimed by its fans to be the greatest comedy film of all time, Life of Brian has courted controversy since its release due to its satirical portrayal of religion that is…
Sep 15, 2026
At the end of the visit Khrushchev and Eisenhower agreed to continue discussions, signalling a temporary improvement in relations that became known as the ‘Spirit of Camp ...
Sep 14, 2026
On the 14th September 1814, the poem that was to provide the lyrics for the United States’ national anthem was written by 35 year-old Francis Scott ...
Sep 13, 2026
Michelangelo’s David is considered to be one of the greatest examples of Renaissance ...
Sep 12, 2026
The walls of the Lascaux cave contained numerous representations of animals, including horses, bulls, bison and deer that were painted approximately 15,000 years ago, during the…
Sep 11, 2026
Janet Parker first became ill on 11 August, but nine days passed before she was admitted to hospital and her infection was identified as ...
Sep 10, 2026
The Austrian delegation to Paris was led by the Social Democrat minister Karl Renner who had little choice but to agree to the redrawing of national borders that saw the…
Sep 9, 2026
Around 10,000 Scots are thought to have died including twelve earls, fifteen lords and numerous other nobles and clan chiefs, removing much of Scotland’s political and military…
Sep 8, 2026
The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, ...
Sep 7, 2026
The Nazi German Luftwaffe launched the first of 57 consecutive days and nights of bombing raids on London in what became known as the ...
Sep 6, 2026
On the morning of 6 September, the French Sixth Army attacked the German First Army near the River Ourcq while the French Fifth Army and British Expeditionary Force advanced into…
Sep 5, 2026
Peter the Great's decision to ban beards was unpopular, not only because it was a significant challenge to tradition but also because shaving a beard was interpreted by some…
Sep 4, 2026
Romulus’ overthrow facilitated Odoacer’s rise and the transition to the Ostrogothic ...
Sep 3, 2026
The victory halted the Mongol advance into the Levant and Egypt, preserving the Mamluks as the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean and establishing a frontier between the…
Sep 1, 2026
The Adi Granth, the original holy scripture of Sikhism now known as Guru Granth Sahib, was first installed at the Harmandir Sahib Golden ...
Aug 31, 2026
Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Entente, which led to the formation of the Triple ...
Aug 30, 2026
Approximately 700 Red Stick warriors led by William Weatherford attacked the fort. Around 250 people were killed, while at least 100 others were taken ...
Aug 29, 2026
The First Opium War formally ended when Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the ‘unequal ...
Aug 28, 2026
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in ...
Aug 27, 2026
By 1916, the Allied governments had promised Romania control of Transylvania and other territories if the Central Powers were defeated. Encouraged by the Brusilov Offensive,…
Aug 26, 2026
The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
Aug 25, 2026
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English ...
Aug 24, 2026
Although it had limited strategic value in military terms, the Burning of Washington demonstrated the vulnerability of the young American republic during the War of 1812 and…
Aug 23, 2026
King Michael I of Romania led a coup d'état that removed the Nazi-aligned government of Ion ...
Aug 22, 2026
Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian ...
Aug 21, 2026
Daghlian was working alone when he accidentally dropped a block of tungsten onto the plutonium core, which increased the reflection of neutrons and pushed the system into a…
Aug 20, 2026
Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón ...
Aug 19, 2026
The Cold War border between Austria and Hungary was opened for a short period of time for the Pan-European ...
Aug 18, 2026
“The Hardest Day” saw the Luftwaffe lose more than 60 aircraft, while the RAF lost around 30 fighters together with experienced pilots whose replacement was increasingly ...
Aug 17, 2026
Parliament passed the Marriage Act that legalised civil marriages and introduced their formal ...
Aug 16, 2026
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James ...
Aug 15, 2026
Officially promoted as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,” Woodstock remains one of the defining moments in the history of modern popular ...
Aug 14, 2026
The Atlantic Charter was issued by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston ...
Aug 13, 2026
The first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle took place in the Bavarian town of ...
Aug 12, 2026
After separation from the carrier aircraft the pilots completed a controlled descent and precise landing at Edwards Air Force Base, confirming earlier aerodynamic predictions and…
Aug 11, 2026
It took the best of part of seven months for the delegates of the new German National Assembly to agree on the terms of the new Weimar constitution, which Ebert signed into law…
Aug 10, 2026
The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal ...
Aug 9, 2026
Produced in cooperation with the Ad Council, the first Smokey Bear poster, released on 9 August 1944, showed the bear pouring a bucket of water onto a campfire beneath the…
Aug 8, 2026
Traffic was stopped on the B507 road in London so The Beatles could pose for their iconic Abbey Road album ...
Aug 7, 2026
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San ...
Aug 6, 2026
The Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and authorised federal officials to oversee voter registration in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination, resulting in a…
Aug 5, 2026
Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace was captured by English forces at Robroyston near ...
Aug 4, 2026
On 4 August 221 Lady Zhen, the wife of Cao Pi of Wei of the Three Kingdoms, ...
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