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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

18th September 2025
Tagged as: Culture, Death, Film, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movie, Suicide, Theatre, USA

The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles.

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2nd October 1627: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, ascends the throne

2nd October 2023
Tagged as: Beijing, China, Emperor, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Suicide

The era name Chongzhen means ‘honourable and auspicious’ but his reign, and the Ming Dynasty, were to end with his suicide in the face of widespread rebellion.

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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

2nd October 1627: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, ascends the throne

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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

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

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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