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13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

13th July 2025
Tagged as: America, Britain, Concert, Culture, London, Music, Philadelphia, USA, Wembley

News reports the day after the concert stated that Live Aid had raised upwards of £40 million.

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27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day

27th September 2023
Tagged as: American Revolution, Britain, Continental Congress, George Washington, Lancaster, PA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Revolutionary War, United States, York

The Continental Congress convened for an official session in Lancaster’s County Courthouse, marking the one and only day the city held the title of the capital of the United States.

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15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

15th September 2023
Tagged as: America, Civil Rights, Philadelphia, Race, Racism, United States

The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American states.

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9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress

9th September 2023
Tagged as: America, Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Nationhood, Philadelphia, Politics, Thomas Jefferson, United States, USA

The new name for the former Thirteen Colonies represented a cohesive identity that united them under a common cause.

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13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day

15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress

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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

12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France

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

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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