512 Episodes

  1. 28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

    Published: 28/10/2025

  2. 27th October 1960: American singer Ben E. King records the renowned song ‘Stand By Me’

    Published: 27/10/2025

  3. 26th October 1861: Pony Express officially ends, only nineteen months after its first service began

    Published: 26/10/2025

  4. 25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt

    Published: 25/10/2025

  5. 24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

    Published: 24/10/2025

  6. 23rd October 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins in Budapest against Soviet control and the Hungarian People’s Republic

    Published: 23/10/2025

  7. 22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent

    Published: 22/10/2025

  8. 21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the British Navy under the command of Nelson defeat the combined fleets of France and Spain

    Published: 21/10/2025

  9. 20th October 1973: Sydney Opera House officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II

    Published: 20/10/2025

  10. 19th October 1935: League of Nations imposes sanctions on Italy for the invasion of Abyssinia

    Published: 19/10/2025

  11. 18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces fight for the first time

    Published: 18/10/2025

  12. 17th October 1943: The Thailand–Burma ‘Death’ Railway completed using forced labour including Allied prisoners of war

    Published: 17/10/2025

  13. 16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia

    Published: 16/10/2025

  14. 15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany in an attempt to stop the hyperinflation crisis

    Published: 15/10/2025

  15. 14th October 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle first published, containing 12 stories

    Published: 14/10/2025

  16. 13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies, supposedly after being poisoned

    Published: 13/10/2025

  17. 12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

    Published: 12/10/2025

  18. 11th October 1986: Reykjavík Summit takes place between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

    Published: 11/10/2025

  19. 10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant

    Published: 10/10/2025

  20. 9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia

    Published: 09/10/2025

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