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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases the album Thriller

30th November 2018
Tagged as: America, Culture, International, Music, Recording, USA

On the 30^th November 1982, Michael Jackson released the album Thriller, which went on to become the best-selling album of all time.

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11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

11th July 2017
Tagged as: Anniversary, Art, Buxton, Comedy, Culture, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Festival, International, Music, Scotland

HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.

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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases the album Thriller

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

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24th July 1911: Machu Picchu ‘rediscovered’ by US explorer Hiram Bingham III

9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

20th January 1942: Nazi leaders meet at the Wannsee Conference

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

18th January 1871: Wilhelm I declared German Emperor

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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