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21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution

21st November 2023
Tagged as: Anthropology, England, Forgery, Fossil, Hoax, Human, Paleontology, Science

The use of fluorine dating revealed that the skull and jawbone, which were once believed to be a crucial ‘missing piece’ in the study of human evolution, did not belong to the same individual and were far younger than previously thought.

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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

6th May 2022
Tagged as: Berlin, Culture, Diary, Forgery, Germany, History, Hitler, Second World War

West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.

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21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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