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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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18th January 1778: Captain James Cook becomes the...

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2026/01/18

Cook anchored off Kauaʻi and later Niʻihau, making contact with the islanders over the following days and exchanged food, water, and other ...

17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War...

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2026/01/17

Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalition aircraft flew in excess of 1,000 sorties a day for five ...

16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian...

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2026/01/16

The title Augustus is understood to translate as ‘the illustrious one’ and, although the title did not grant Octavian him political authority, many historians see this as the point at which his rule as first Roman Emperor ...

15th January 1867: 40 people die when ice on the...

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2026/01/15

Approximately 200 skaters plunged into the freezing water, all wearing heavy winter clothes that dragged them down. Many were also unable to ...

14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at...

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2026/01/14

The Casablanca Conference saw the Combined Chiefs of Staff join American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss the future strategy for fighting the Second World ...

13th January 1935: The Territory of the Saar Basin...

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2026/01/13

Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German ...

12th January 1913: The name “Stalin” meaning “man of...

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2026/01/12

Like many underground revolutionaries, Joseph Dzhugashvili made frequent use of pseudonyms to evade police surveillance, and first used the alias “K. Stalin” as the signature to a letter in the Social ...

11th January 1923: French and Belgian troops marched...

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2026/01/11

The occupation of the Ruhr was met with passive resistance by the German workers. Their strike was only called off on 26 September as rampant hyperinflation crippled the German ...

10th January 49 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the...

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2026/01/10

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the 13th Legion during his march on Rome that led to the Roman Civil ...

9th January 1806: State funeral of Admiral Horatio...

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2026/01/09

Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of national figures accorded this ...

8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow...

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2026/01/08

Keen to distance the United States from nationalistic disputes that fuelled European rivalries, Wilson's 14 Points sought a lasting peace by securing terms that avoided selfish ambitions of the ...

7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of...

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2026/01/07

After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the ...

6th January 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

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2026/01/06

Roosevelt identified freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear that, together, provided a moral framework for US engagement in the ...

5th January 1968: The Prague Spring begins with...

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2026/01/05

Dubček replaced Novotný as the leader of Czechoslovakia on 5 January 1968 and quickly began to introduce a series of political and economic reforms known as ‘socialism with a human ...

4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to...

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2026/01/04

Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of Parliamentary privilege – and sat in the Speaker’s chair to demand the Five Members be handed over to ...

3rd January 1868: Meiji Restoration begins in Japan...

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2026/01/03

Supporters of imperial restoration occupied key positions in Kyoto on 3 January 1868 and announced the abolition of the Tokugawa ...

2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of...

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2026/01/02

In response to Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter brought the period of détente to an ...

1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations...

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2026/01/01

The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the USSR’s Ambassador to the US Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs T. V. Soong – were joined the next day by a further 24 ...

31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place...

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2025/12/31

The dinner was widely reported and helped generate public interest in the Crystal Palace Park's life-sized models of extinct animals, which opened to visitors the following ...

30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of...

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2025/12/30

In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian ...

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