576 Episodes

  1. 2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade

    Published: 02/09/2025

  2. 1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War

    Published: 01/09/2025

  3. 31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water

    Published: 31/08/2025

  4. 30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

    Published: 30/08/2025

  5. 29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction

    Published: 29/08/2025

  6. 28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

    Published: 28/08/2025

  7. 27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States

    Published: 27/08/2025

  8. 26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces

    Published: 26/08/2025

  9. 25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles

    Published: 25/08/2025

  10. 24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum

    Published: 24/08/2025

  11. 23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe

    Published: 23/08/2025

  12. 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

  13. 21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris

    Published: 21/08/2025

  14. 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

  15. 19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio

    Published: 19/08/2025

  16. 18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin

    Published: 18/08/2025

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

    Published: 17/08/2025

  18. 16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester

    Published: 16/08/2025

  19. 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

  20. 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

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The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com

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