523 Épisodes

  1. 28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers

    Publié: 28/11/2025
  2. 27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

    Publié: 27/11/2025
  3. 26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

    Publié: 26/11/2025
  4. 25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow

    Publié: 25/11/2025
  5. 24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

    Publié: 24/11/2025
  6. 23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces

    Publié: 23/11/2025
  7. 22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations

    Publié: 22/11/2025
  8. 21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

    Publié: 21/11/2025
  9. 20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War

    Publié: 20/11/2025
  10. 19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology

    Publié: 19/11/2025
  11. 18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal

    Publié: 18/11/2025
  12. 17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

    Publié: 17/11/2025
  13. 16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD

    Publié: 16/11/2025
  14. 15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

    Publié: 15/11/2025
  15. 14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine

    Publié: 14/11/2025
  16. 13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky

    Publié: 13/11/2025
  17. 12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

    Publié: 12/11/2025
  18. 11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

    Publié: 11/11/2025
  19. 10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina

    Publié: 10/11/2025
  20. 9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect

    Publié: 09/11/2025

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