HistoryPod

381 Episodo

1. 10th May 1869: The ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory

   Publicado: 10/5/2025
2. 9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels

   Publicado: 9/5/2025
3. 8th May 1950: The Tollund Man, who lived in the 5th century BC, discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg in Denmark

   Publicado: 8/5/2025
4. 7th May 1794: Cult of the Supreme Being formally announced by Robespierre in a meeting of the National Convention

   Publicado: 7/5/2025
5. 6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

   Publicado: 6/5/2025
6. 5th May 1789: The Estates General meets at Versailles, near Paris, for the first time in 175 years

   Publicado: 5/5/2025
7. 4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

   Publicado: 4/5/2025
8. 3rd May 1921: Partition of Ireland divides Ireland into two separate political entities

   Publicado: 3/5/2025
9. 2nd May 1670: Hudson’s Bay Company established with a royal charter from King Charles II of England

   Publicado: 2/5/2025
10. 1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt

    Publicado: 1/5/2025
11. 30th April 1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty concluded between the United States and France

    Publicado: 30/4/2025
12. 29th April 1587: Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard

    Publicado: 29/4/2025
13. 28th April 1967: Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, refuses induction into the United States Army

    Publicado: 28/4/2025
14. 27th April 1945: Benito Mussolini, the former Fascist dictator of Italy, captured by Italian partisans in northern Italy

    Publicado: 27/4/2025
15. 26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender

    Publicado: 26/4/2025
16. 25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said

    Publicado: 25/4/2025
17. 24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside

    Publicado: 24/4/2025
18. 23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria

    Publicado: 23/4/2025
19. 22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres

    Publicado: 22/4/2025
20. 21st April 1526: First Battle of Panipat marks the beginning of Mughal rule in India and the end of the Lodi dynasty

    Publicado: 21/4/2025