HistoryPod

384 Episodes

1. 13th May 1861: Queen Victoria issues a “Proclamation of Neutrality” concerning the American Civil War

   Published: 5/13/2025
2. 12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California

   Published: 5/12/2025
3. 11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions

   Published: 5/11/2025
4. 10th May 1869: The ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory

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

   Published: 5/9/2025
6. 8th May 1950: The Tollund Man, who lived in the 5th century BC, discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg in Denmark

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

   Published: 5/7/2025
8. 6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

   Published: 5/6/2025
9. 5th May 1789: The Estates General meets at Versailles, near Paris, for the first time in 175 years

   Published: 5/5/2025
10. 4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

    Published: 5/4/2025
11. 3rd May 1921: Partition of Ireland divides Ireland into two separate political entities

    Published: 5/3/2025
12. 2nd May 1670: Hudson’s Bay Company established with a royal charter from King Charles II of England

    Published: 5/2/2025
13. 1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt

    Published: 5/1/2025
14. 30th April 1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty concluded between the United States and France

    Published: 4/30/2025
15. 29th April 1587: Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard

    Published: 4/29/2025
16. 28th April 1967: Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, refuses induction into the United States Army

    Published: 4/28/2025
17. 27th April 1945: Benito Mussolini, the former Fascist dictator of Italy, captured by Italian partisans in northern Italy

    Published: 4/27/2025
18. 26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender

    Published: 4/26/2025
19. 25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said

    Published: 4/25/2025
20. 24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside

    Published: 4/24/2025