The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model Ts.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
The Judiciary Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Washington.
The poem Defence of Fort M’Henry provides an account of the British attack on the United States during the Battle of Baltimore.
The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic relay.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th Century.
Nixon announced his resignation in a televised speech on 8 August and it took effect from noon the next day.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted powers to President Johnson to use American military force to assist countries in Southeast Asia that were facing so-called ‘communist aggression’.
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the moon.
The Chillicothe Baking Company’s ‘Kleen Maid Sliced Bread’ proved incredibly popular and was advertised as ‘the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.’
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
26th September 2022
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
