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15th September 1440: Gilles de Rais is arrested and later convicted as one of the world’s earliest serial killers

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Gilles de Rais was found guilty of murder, sodomy, and heresy after confessing to his involvement in the murder of children and engagement in occult practices, seeking power and knowledge through alchemy and the invocation of ...Por Scott Allsop

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14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

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Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the ...Por Scott Allsop

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13th September 1848: Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an explosion propels a large iron bar completely through his head

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An explosion propelled a tamping iron into Gage’s left cheek before it passed behind his left eye and exited through the top of his skull, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal ...Por Scott Allsop

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12th September 490 BCE: Battle of Marathon is fought during the Greco-Persian Wars (accepted date)

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The Persians suffered over 6,000 casualties, while the Athenians lost only 192 men, leading to a decisive Athenian victory that saw the invaders retreat to their ...Por Scott Allsop

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11th September 1789: Alexander Hamilton appointed US Secretary of the Treasury

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Alexander Hamilton was made the first United States Secretary of the Treasury by President George ...Por Scott Allsop

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10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans to cross the border into Austria

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Hungary had been inundated with East Germans since the government began removing the border fence in ...Por Scott Allsop

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9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first ...Por Scott Allsop

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8th September 1888: Peral, the first successful electric-powered submarine, launched by the Spanish navy

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Designed by the Spanish engineer and naval officer Isaac Peral, the Peral submarine marked a significant development in naval technology as it featured a revolutionary propulsion system that used electric batteries to power a pair of 30hp electric ...Por Scott Allsop

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7th September 1695: English pirate Henry Every captures the Grand Mughal Fleet in one of the most lucrative pirate raids of all time

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With the impressive Ganj-i-Sawai incapacitated, Every’s crew boarded the ship and looted the valuable cargo, which is estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at the ...Por Scott Allsop

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6th September 1651: Charles II of England hides in an oak tree to escape capture by Parliamentary forces following the Battle of Worcester

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With Parliamentary troops searching the surrounding woodland, Royalist soldier William Careless suggested the king should hide in an oak tree, later known as the Royal ...Por Scott Allsop

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5th September 1793: The Reign of Terror begins in France during the Revolution

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The Reign of Terror began in France when Bertrand Barère, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, made a speech in favour of it that ended with the exclamation, “Let's make terror the order of the ...Por Scott Allsop

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4th September 1957: Nine Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School in Arkansas

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The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President ...Por Scott Allsop

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3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

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The Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of ...Por Scott Allsop

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2nd September 1792: September Massacres begin during the French Revolution, resulting thousands of deaths

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With the prisons full of suspected counter-revolutionaries, the radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat urged the citizens of Paris to take up arms and eliminate these ‘enemies of the ...Por Scott Allsop

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1st September 1969: Libyan Revolution brings Muammar Gaddafi to power following the overthrow of King Idris I

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In the early hours of September 1, while King Idris I was in Turkey receiving medical treatment, Gaddafi and the Free Officers Movement launched their coup that took control of key institutions in Tripoli and Benghazi, including military bases, government offices, and radio ...Por Scott Allsop

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31st August 1888: Discovery of the first victim of Jack the Ripper in London

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On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of ...Por Scott Allsop

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30th August 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the US Supreme Court

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President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69 to 11 on August ...Por Scott Allsop

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29th August 1911: Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California

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Ishi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in ...Por Scott Allsop

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28th August 1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm ends, prompting the term ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

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During a bank robbery in Stockholm, Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank workers hostage. They later began to exhibit sympathy towards their captors while becoming fearful of the police’s ...Por Scott Allsop

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27th August 1896: Shortest recorded war in history fought between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar

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The British bombardment was swift and devastating, setting Zanzibar's palace and its buildings ablaze and killing or wounding approximately 500 men and women. The war lasted for barely 40 ...Por Scott Allsop

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26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls

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The world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara ...Por Scott Allsop

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25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

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Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, ...Por Scott Allsop

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24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

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As the Kweilin Douglas DC-2 aircraft neared the city of Namyung in Guangdong province, it was intercepted by three Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighters that opened fire on the unarmed civilian ...Por Scott Allsop

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23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

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The Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas ...Por Scott Allsop

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22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

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The First Geneva Convention mandated protection and care for wounded and sick military personnel, regardless of nationality, as well as recognising the neutrality of medical personnel, field hospitals, and ...Por Scott Allsop

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21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

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After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far ...Por Scott Allsop

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20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

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At around 11pm on the 20th August 1968, troops from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia in an invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an ...Por Scott Allsop

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19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

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On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August ...Por Scott Allsop

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18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

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The Volksempfänger was simple and utilitarian, but made radio technology accessible to the general population and enabled it to be used as a means of disseminating Nazi ...Por Scott Allsop

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17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

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The world’s first commercially successful steamship was launched on the Hudson River between New York and ...Por Scott Allsop

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16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

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The levée en masse affected the entire population and represented an unprecedented move by a government, as it extended the responsibility of national defence beyond professional soldiers to the general ...Por Scott Allsop

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15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

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Josef Jakobs was found guilty of espionage by General Court Martial and taken to the miniature firing range at the Tower of London where he was strapped to a wooden Windsor chair and killed by firing squad at ...Por Scott Allsop

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14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

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The announcement of the partition led to mass migrations, marred by violence, as Hindus and Sikhs moved to India while Muslims migrated to ...Por Scott Allsop

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13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

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Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the ...Por Scott Allsop

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12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan ...Por Scott Allsop

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11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

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The conquest of Dacia was a strategic and economic victory for Rome, providing raw materials and a strong north-eastern ...Por Scott Allsop

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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

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It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...Por Scott Allsop

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9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

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The concert took place at the Philharmonic Hall, and was preceded by a Soviet artillery bombardment designed to silence the German lines during the ...Por Scott Allsop

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8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

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Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...Por Scott Allsop

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7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

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The crew all survived, and their expedition provided evidence supporting Heyerdahl’s hypothesis that it was possible for ancient South Americans to have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to ...Por Scott Allsop

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6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

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In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of ...Por Scott Allsop

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5th August 1962: Nelson Mandela arrested and jailed in South Africa

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On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without a ...Por Scott Allsop

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4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

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President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...Por Scott Allsop

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3rd August 1798: Battle of the Nile ends with a decisive British victory over the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars

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The turning point came when the French flagship, L'Orient, caught fire and exploded. The massive blast illuminated the night sky and demoralized the French ...Por Scott Allsop

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2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

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The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...Por Scott Allsop

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1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched

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Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...Por Scott Allsop

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31st July 1917: Battle of Passchendaele begins during the First World War, resulting in one of the muddiest battles of the conflict

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The landscape was scarred by craters filled with water and, by the time the battle ended over three months later following the Canadian capture of the village of Passchendaele, there were approximately 500,000 casualties on both ...Por Scott Allsop