576 Episodes

  1. 22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published

    Published: 22/09/2025

  2. 21st September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit first published in the United Kingdom

    Published: 21/09/2025

  3. 20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII

    Published: 20/09/2025

  4. 19th September 1970: First Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, known at the time as the Pilton Festival of Pop, Folk, and Blues

    Published: 19/09/2025

  5. 18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

    Published: 18/09/2025

  6. 17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash

    Published: 17/09/2025

  7. 16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

    Published: 16/09/2025

  8. 15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

    Published: 15/09/2025

  9. 14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah

    Published: 14/09/2025

  10. 13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

    Published: 13/09/2025

  11. 12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody

    Published: 12/09/2025

  12. 11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution

    Published: 11/09/2025

  13. 10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

    Published: 10/09/2025

  14. 9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

    Published: 09/09/2025

  15. 8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina

    Published: 08/09/2025

  16. 7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising

    Published: 07/09/2025

  17. 6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

    Published: 06/09/2025

  18. 5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West

    Published: 05/09/2025

  19. 4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

    Published: 04/09/2025

  20. 3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand

    Published: 03/09/2025

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