507 Episodes

  1. 24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum

    Published: 24/08/2025

  2. 23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe

    Published: 23/08/2025

  3. 22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end

    Published: 22/08/2025

  4. 21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris

    Published: 21/08/2025

  5. 20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and transmit images of the surface back to Earth

    Published: 20/08/2025

  6. 19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio

    Published: 19/08/2025

  7. 18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin

    Published: 18/08/2025

  8. 17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom

    Published: 17/08/2025

  9. 16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester

    Published: 16/08/2025

  10. 15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people

    Published: 15/08/2025

  11. 14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union

    Published: 14/08/2025

  12. 13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés

    Published: 13/08/2025

  13. 12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer

    Published: 12/08/2025

  14. 11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

    Published: 11/08/2025

  15. 10th August 1961: United States begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War

    Published: 10/08/2025

  16. 9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment due to the Watergate Scandal

    Published: 9/08/2025

  17. 8th August 1786: Mont Blanc was successfully climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard

    Published: 8/08/2025

  18. 7th August 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress

    Published: 7/08/2025

  19. 6th August 1945: The United States drop an atomic bomb nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay

    Published: 6/08/2025

  20. 5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War

    Published: 5/08/2025

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