HistoryPod

512 Episodes

1. 17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

   Published: 17/11/2025
2. 16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD

   Published: 16/11/2025
3. 15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

   Published: 15/11/2025
4. 14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine

   Published: 14/11/2025
5. 13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky

   Published: 13/11/2025
6. 12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

   Published: 12/11/2025
7. 11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

   Published: 11/11/2025
8. 10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina

   Published: 10/11/2025
9. 9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect

   Published: 09/11/2025
10. 8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff

    Published: 08/11/2025
11. 7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic

    Published: 07/11/2025
12. 6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

    Published: 06/11/2025
13. 5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term

    Published: 05/11/2025
14. 4th November 1852: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia

    Published: 04/11/2025
15. 3rd November 1957: Laika the dog becomes the first animal to enter orbit around the Earth

    Published: 03/11/2025
16. 2nd November 1795: The Directory established in France following the Thermidorian Reaction

    Published: 02/11/2025
17. 1st November 1938: American racehorse Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in a direct contest between the two horses

    Published: 01/11/2025
18. 31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation

    Published: 31/10/2025
19. 30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

    Published: 30/10/2025
20. 29th October 1923: Republic of Turkey formally proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Published: 29/10/2025