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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
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, ...By Scott Allsop
On the 25th October 1415, the English king Henry V celebrated a major victory in the Hundred Years War when he defeated the numerically superior French army at the Battle of ...By Scott Allsop
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24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis
World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from ...By Scott Allsop
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23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public
She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the ...By Scott Allsop
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22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian
The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical ...By Scott Allsop
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21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama
In October 1921 Harding travelled to Alabama. Here he expressed his support for anti-lynching laws that would hold counties responsible for the illegal hangings, and lodge federal murder cases against the ...By Scott Allsop
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20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band
Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing singer Cassie Gaines were all killed in the ...By Scott Allsop
Set in the distant future where books are outlawed, the story focuses on Guy Montag whose job as a fireman sees him burn houses that are found to contain ...By Scott Allsop
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18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States
Although ridiculed shortly afterwards as ‘Seward’s Folly’, the Alaska Purchase has since been reinterpreted as one of President Andrew Johnson’s greatest ...By Scott Allsop
On the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court ...By Scott Allsop
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...By Scott Allsop
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15th October 1966: The Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the killing of unarmed black teen Matthew Johnson by police the following year, the two men established the Black Panther Party for ...By Scott Allsop
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...By Scott Allsop
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13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
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On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being ...By Scott Allsop
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s ...By Scott Allsop
On the 11th October 1521, Pope Leo X granted the title "Defender of the Faith" to King Henry VIII of ...By Scott Allsop
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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...By Scott Allsop
On the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a ...By Scott Allsop
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The Peshtigo Fire killed up to 2,500 people in the deadliest wildfire in recorded ...By Scott Allsop
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7th October 1763: Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian ...By Scott Allsop
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...By Scott Allsop
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5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched
With 80% of all American television households watching at least one PBS program each year, it has been consistently rated the most-trusted national institution in the United States according to Roper Opinion Research ...By Scott Allsop
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Washington’s face was the first to be completed, seven years after work began. In July 1939 Roosevelt was the final likeness to be ...By Scott Allsop
During the operation, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and 19 Americans lost their lives, while at least 200 Somali militiamen were killed as well as hundreds of ...By Scott Allsop
United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...By Scott Allsop
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The first printed note to feature ‘In God We Trust’ was the updated one-dollar silver certificate that entered circulation on 1 October ...By Scott Allsop
The Hoover Dam was known as the Boulder Dam at the ...By Scott Allsop
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On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of ...By Scott Allsop
The Siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North ...By Scott Allsop
On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in ...By Scott Allsop
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...By Scott Allsop
On the 25th September 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first European to successfully lead an expedition to the Pacific Ocean from the New ...By Scott Allsop
The Judiciary Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George ...By Scott Allsop
‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by ...By Scott Allsop
The first edition of the National Geographic Magazine was published by the National Geographic ...By Scott Allsop
On the 21st September 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit was first published in the United ...By Scott Allsop
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20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the ...By Scott Allsop
On the 19th September 1970 the first Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in ...By Scott Allsop
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The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los ...By Scott Allsop
On the 17th September 1978 the Camp David Accords, which led to the first ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem ...By Scott Allsop
38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New ...By Scott Allsop
The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American ...By Scott Allsop
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the ...By Scott Allsop
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Henry Hale Bliss, a Manhattan real estate salesman, was helping a female companion name as Miss Lee disembark a southbound 8th Avenue trolley car at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York ...By Scott Allsop
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas ...By Scott Allsop
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from ...By Scott Allsop
American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen ...By Scott Allsop
On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical ...By Scott Allsop
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on ...By Scott Allsop
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The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper ...By Scott Allsop
