512 Episodes

  1. 23rd September 1889: Nintendo founded in Kyoto, Japan, to produce playing cards

    Published: 23/09/2024

  2. 22nd September 1980: Start of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted on for nearly eight years

    Published: 22/09/2024

  3. 21st September 1915: Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge’s last private owner, wins it at auction

    Published: 21/09/2024

  4. 20th September 1946: First Cannes International Film Festival begins at the former Casino

    Published: 20/09/2024

  5. 19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

    Published: 19/09/2024

  6. 18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

    Published: 18/09/2024

  7. 17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

    Published: 17/09/2024

  8. 16th September 1979: Two families escape from East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

    Published: 16/09/2024

  9. 15th September 1440: Gilles de Rais is arrested and later convicted as one of the world’s earliest serial killers

    Published: 15/09/2024

  10. 14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

    Published: 14/09/2024

  11. 13th September 1848: Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an explosion propels a large iron bar completely through his head

    Published: 13/09/2024

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

    Published: 12/09/2024

  13. 11th September 1789: Alexander Hamilton appointed US Secretary of the Treasury

    Published: 11/09/2024

  14. 10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans to cross the border into Austria

    Published: 10/09/2024

  15. 9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

    Published: 9/09/2024

  16. 8th September 1888: Peral, the first successful electric-powered submarine, launched by the Spanish navy

    Published: 8/09/2024

  17. 7th September 1695: English pirate Henry Every captures the Grand Mughal Fleet in one of the most lucrative pirate raids of all time

    Published: 7/09/2024

  18. 6th September 1651: Charles II of England hides in an oak tree to escape capture by Parliamentary forces following the Battle of Worcester

    Published: 6/09/2024

  19. 5th September 1793: The Reign of Terror begins in France during the Revolution

    Published: 5/09/2024

  20. 4th September 1957: Nine Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School in Arkansas

    Published: 4/09/2024

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