Scott Allsop

HistoryPod

History EN ↓ 245 episodes

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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Scott Allsop

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28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers 28.11.2025

By providing an organised setting for experiment, publication, and debate, the Royal Society helped anchor the emerging scientific method and created a model that continues to influence scientific culture in Britain and ...

27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London 27.11.2025

Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of ...

26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings 26.11.2025

Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever ...

25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow 25.11.2025

Under Yezhov's leadership the NKVD launched a campaign of arrests targeting party members, military officers, and civilians that saw widespread purges, forced confessions, and executions. Estimates of those killed range into the hundreds of ...

24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology 24.11.2025

Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of ...

23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces 23.11.2025

The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...

22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations 22.11.2025

The hijackings showed a figure dressed as Max Headroom, a fictional artificial-intelligence television personality created in the mid-1980s and presented as “the world’s first computer-generated TV host”, in front of a sheet of corrugated ...

21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182 21.11.2025

21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub ...

20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War 20.11.2025

Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...

19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology 19.11.2025

The Wii's defining feature was the Wii Remote, a wireless controller that could be swung, pointed, or tilted that enabled physical actions to correspond directly with on-screen ...

18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal 18.11.2025

By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the Allies had advanced more than six miles into German-held ...

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party 17.11.2025

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik ...

16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD 16.11.2025

Lysergic acid diethylamide was modified from one of the principal active components of ergot, a fungus found on rye that had long been known for its medicinal and toxic ...

15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam 15.11.2025

Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in ...

14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party challenged by Michael Heseltine 14.11.2025

Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the General Election of 1979 but by the late 1980s her popularity, along with that of her party, was ...

13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky 13.11.2025

Contemporary estimates suggest that up to 100,000 meteors per hour may have been visible at the Great Storm's peak shortly before dawn on 13 ...

12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee 12.11.2025

Within five years the World Wide Web began to be adopted by people and companies that weren’t connected with science or academia, and it has seemingly been dominated by photographs of cats ever ...

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed 11.11.2025

On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of ...

10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina 10.11.2025

On 10 November, hundreds of armed men led by Alfred Waddell set fire to the Daily Record office, and violence spread through the city as mobs killed an estimated 60 to 300 Black ...

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 09.11.2025

Although the border remained closed for around three hours, by 11pm the Berlin Wall checkpoint at Bornholmer Strasse had been ...