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HistoryPod

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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25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the...

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2025/10/25

Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than ...

24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final...

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2025/10/24

World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from ...

23rd October 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins in...

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2025/10/23

On 23 October 1956, thousands of students marched through Budapest calling for political reforms, free elections, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Over the next few weeks the revolution was brutally put ...

22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute...

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2025/10/22

Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute ...

21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the...

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2025/10/21

The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ...

20th October 1973: Sydney Opera House officially...

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2025/10/20

Construction began in March 1959 but the project, located on Bennelong Point overlooking Sydney Harbour, soon ran into difficulties before finally opening on 20 October ...

19th October 1935: League of Nations imposes...

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2025/10/19

When Abyssinia was finally captured on 5 May, all the sanctions were ...

18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces...

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2025/10/18

European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda ...

17th October 1943: The Thailand–Burma ‘Death’ Railway...

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2025/10/17

The Japanese used approximately 60,000 POWs, mainly British, Dutch, Australian, and American, to construct the railway alongside an estimated 180,000 to 250,000 Asian civilians. It is estimated that around 12,000 Allied prisoners and up to 90,000 civilians died during ...

16th October 1846: First public demonstration of...

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2025/10/16

The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...

15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar...

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2025/10/15

The new currency was backed by land that was used by businesses and agriculture, and was introduced at the rate of one Rentenmark to one trillion ...

14th October 1892: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...

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2025/10/14

The twelve stories that make up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were originally serialised between July 1891 and June 1892, and included cases such as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” and “The Adventure of the Speckled ...

13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies,...

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2025/10/13

Ancient sources state that the Emperor Claudius as poisoned, although who administered the poison - and on whose orders - continues to be fiercely debated by ...

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was...

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2025/10/12

British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World ...

11th October 1986: Reykjavík Summit takes place...

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2025/10/11

The Reykjavík Summit quickly developed into one of the most significant negotiations of the era, with both sides beginning to address the escalating nuclear arms race during the Cold ...

10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian...

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2025/10/10

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...

9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary...

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2025/10/09

Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian ...

8th October 1856: Second Opium War begins after the...

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2025/10/08

Chinese officials boarded the Arrow and arrested its crew on suspicion of piracy and smuggling, prompting British authorities to claim that the Chinese had violated the vessel’s British protection, and prompting ...

7th October 1949: The creation of East Germany,...

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2025/10/07

The establishment of the GDR ensured that the division of Germany that had been implemented in 1945 was made ...

6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the...

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2025/10/06

Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...

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