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HistoryPod
Scott Allsop
245 episodes
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Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of national figures accorded this ...
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Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of national figures accorded this ...
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9th January 1806: State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson takes place in London, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar
Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of national figures accorded this ...
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8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson outlines his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen Points
Keen to distance the United States from nationalistic disputes that fuelled European rivalries, Wilson's 14 Points sought a lasting peace by securing terms that avoided selfish ambitions of the ...
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2 days ago

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7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture the capital city Phnom Penh
After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the ...
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3 days ago

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6th January 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out the “Four Freedoms” in his State of the Union address
Roosevelt identified freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear that, together, provided a moral framework for US engagement in the ...
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4 days ago

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5th January 1968: The Prague Spring begins with Alexander Dubček becoming the new leader of Czechoslovakia
Dubček replaced Novotný as the leader of Czechoslovakia on 5 January 1968 and quickly began to introduce a series of political and economic reforms known as ‘socialism with a human ...
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4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War
Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of Parliamentary privilege – and sat in the Speaker’s chair to demand the Five Members be handed over to ...
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6 days ago

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3rd January 1868: Meiji Restoration begins in Japan when loyalists seize control of the Kyoto Imperial Palace
Supporters of imperial restoration occupied key positions in Kyoto on 3 January 1868 and announced the abolition of the Tokugawa ...
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1 week ago

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2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of détente after the USSR invades Afghanistan
In response to Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter brought the period of détente to an ...
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1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War
The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the USSR’s Ambassador to the US Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs T. V. Soong – were joined the next day by a further 24 ...
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31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place inside a model of an Iguanodon at the Crystal Palace Park in south London
The dinner was widely reported and helped generate public interest in the Crystal Palace Park's life-sized models of extinct animals, which opened to visitors the following ...
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30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian ...
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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee ...
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28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier
The Ordonnance de Montpellier required printers and booksellers to deposit a copy of every book published in the kingdom with the royal ...
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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’
The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a ...
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2 weeks ago

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26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet
As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved the next ...
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2 weeks ago

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25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica
The coronation of Charlemagne established the precedent for what later became known as the Holy Roman Empire and reinforced the idea of a Christian emperor as protector of the ...
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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents
CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD Tracks Santa has reported Santa’s location ever ...
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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey
Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a ...
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22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight
The SR-71 was used to conduct reconnaissance missions over hostile territory, providing high-quality photographic and electronic intelligence until its retirement in ...
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21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne
Wynne’s first ‘word-cross puzzle’ was shaped as a symmetrical diamond with a hollow centre, and was developed by Wynne for the 21 December issue of the New York World’s ‘Fun’ ...
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Nelson’s coffin was placed on a grand funeral car designed to resemble HMS Victory for its final journey to St Paul’s Cathedral and subsequently interred in the crypt, joining a small number of national figures accorded this ...