531 Episodo

  1. 10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

    Publicado: 10/4/2025
  2. 9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph

    Publicado: 9/4/2025
  3. 8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name

    Publicado: 8/4/2025
  4. 7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft

    Publicado: 7/4/2025
  5. 6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1

    Publicado: 6/4/2025
  6. 5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America

    Publicado: 5/4/2025
  7. 4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history

    Publicado: 4/4/2025
  8. 3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford

    Publicado: 3/4/2025
  9. 2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London

    Publicado: 2/4/2025
  10. 1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service

    Publicado: 1/4/2025
  11. 31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle

    Publicado: 31/3/2025
  12. 30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

    Publicado: 30/3/2025
  13. 29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam

    Publicado: 29/3/2025
  14. 28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote

    Publicado: 28/3/2025
  15. 27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines

    Publicado: 27/3/2025
  16. 26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

    Publicado: 26/3/2025
  17. 25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam

    Publicado: 25/3/2025
  18. 24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia

    Publicado: 24/3/2025
  19. 23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

    Publicado: 23/3/2025
  20. 22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

    Publicado: 22/3/2025

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