HistoryPod
110 old videos with fewer than 5,000 views from this channel.
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27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII, the shortest reigning Pope in history, dies
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9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document
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19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama
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27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the Moscow embassy
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30th November 1786: Tuscany is the first modern state to abolish the death penalty
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10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system as the official system of weights and measures
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16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea overboard
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24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York
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1st January 1772: First travellers cheques put on sale
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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston
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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
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18th February 1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published in the United States.
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28th February 1993: Beginning of the Waco siege of the Branch Davidian Church in Texas
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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris
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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin's book store
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8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name
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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride
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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends
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14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact
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26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation
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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in Santa Cruz
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15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain
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29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground