Tag: Hoax

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

27th November 2025
Tagged as: Britain, England, Georgian, Hoax, Joke, London

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

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25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles

25th August 2025
Tagged as: Culture, Hoax, Journalism, Moon, New York, New York City, Newspaper, Space

The articles that formed the “Great Moon Hoax” stated that famed astronomer John Herschel had observed animals resembling bison, goats, and even humanoid bat-like creatures on the Moon alongside forests, oceans, pyramids, and temples.

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

25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles

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

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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

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

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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