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HistoryPod
Scott Allsop
245 episodes
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20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII
Clement established his court in Avignon, supported by France, Scotland, and several other European states. Urban VI, meanwhile, retained control of Rome and was recognized by England, much of Germany, and parts of ...
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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
Organised by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, the event was billed as the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival and attracted 1,500 people who paid a pound each to see a number of bands on a single stage and drink unlimited quantities of ...
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1 day ago

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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los ...
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2 days ago

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17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash
Whilst circling the parade ground of Fort Myer, a propeller blade split and broke apart. This struck one of the wires that controlled the rudder, pitching the aircraft forward sharply after which it crashed nose-first into the ...
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3 days ago

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16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as ...
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4 days ago

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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...
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5 days ago

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14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah
Messiah has since become one of the most frequently performed choral works in Western music with the “Hallelujah” chorus becoming a central piece in the choral ...
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6 days ago

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13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...
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1 week ago

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12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...
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11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution
The French Blue diamond had been part of the royal collection since the seventeenth century, and was stolen by a group of thieves after King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were imprisoned in the ...
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10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen ...
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9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer
The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic ...
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8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina
Contemporary accounts suggest that over 20,000 sheep were gathered near Fortín Conesa in northern Patagonia, from where they undertook a gruelling journey to the abundant grazing land of Santa Cruz ...
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1 week ago

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7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising
Warbeck had convinced his followers that he was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘Princes in the ...
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1 week ago

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6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet that circumnavigated the ...
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2 weeks ago

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5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West
Gouzenko’s defection had far-reaching effects. In Canada, several people were arrested and convicted of espionage while other Western governments were alerted to the extent of Soviet intelligence ...
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4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...
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3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...
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2 weeks ago

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2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade
The Treaty of Jaffa established a three-year truce and confirmed that Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, although Christian pilgrims would be allowed access to the city’s holy ...
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World ...
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2 weeks ago

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Clashes between troops and rioters during the Nottingham Cheese Riot led to one man being killed while the mayor himself was knocked down by a rolling cheese ...