HistoryPod https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 18th October 1967: Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 becomes the first to enter the atmosphere of Venus and transmit scientific data back to Earth 17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery 16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland 15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic 14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites 13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber 12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great 9th October 1665: King Charles II moves Parliament to the University of Oxford to escape the Great Plague 11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X 10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record 6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City 8th October 1480: The Great Stand on the Ugra River by Ivan III 7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance 5th October 1962: James Bond and The Beatles each make their debut with Dr. No and Love Me Do 4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar 3rd October 1952: Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, its first test of an atomic bomb 2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office 30th September 1960: The Flintstones broadcast for the first time as the world’s first animated sitcom 1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China 29th September 1789: Congress formally establishes the United States Army on the final day of its first session 28th September 1928: Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin, laying the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine 27th September 1825: Stockton and Darlington Railway opens as the first public railway to make regular use of steam locomotives 24th September 1954: Iconic AEC Routemaster London bus revealed at the Commercial Motor Show at Earl’s Court 26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate 25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada 23rd September 1974: BBC launches Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service 22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution 21st September 1792: French First Republic begins when the National Convention formally abolish the monarchy 20th September 1835: The start of the Ragamuffin War in Brazil 19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation 18th September 1870: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition to the Yellowstone region sees a large geyser they named Old Faithful. 17th September 1978: Camp David Accords signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin 16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian after George Harrison steps in to provide funding 15th September 1959: Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States 12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France 14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry” 13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David 11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox 10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War 9th September 1513: Battle of Flodden marks the largest battle to ever take place between Scotland and England 8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad 7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz 6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army 5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards 4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer 3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance 1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple 31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente 30th August 1813: Red Stick Creek 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