559 Episodes

  1. 24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

    Published: 11/24/2025

  2. 23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces

    Published: 11/23/2025

  3. 22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations

    Published: 11/22/2025

  4. 21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

    Published: 11/21/2025

  5. 20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War

    Published: 11/20/2025

  6. 19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology

    Published: 11/19/2025

  7. 18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal

    Published: 11/18/2025

  8. 17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

    Published: 11/17/2025

  9. 16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD

    Published: 11/16/2025

  10. 15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

    Published: 11/15/2025

  11. 14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine

    Published: 11/14/2025

  12. 13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky

    Published: 11/13/2025

  13. 12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

    Published: 11/12/2025

  14. 11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

    Published: 11/11/2025

  15. 10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina

    Published: 11/10/2025

  16. 9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect

    Published: 11/9/2025

  17. 8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff

    Published: 11/8/2025

  18. 7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic

    Published: 11/7/2025

  19. 6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London

    Published: 11/6/2025

  20. 5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term

    Published: 11/5/2025

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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