Scott Allsop's Blog, page 167
October 23, 2019
24th October 1929: Wall Street Crash begins on ‘Black Thursday’
Thursday the 24th October 1929, known as Black Thursday, is generally accepted as the first day of the Wall Street ...
October 22, 2019
23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI ...
October 21, 2019
22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris express train crashes through a wall in Paris
On the 22nd October 1895, the Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse ...
October 20, 2019
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster
At 9.15am on the 21st October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a colliery spoil tip above the Welsh village of Aberfan ...
October 19, 2019
20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March
On the 20th October 1935, the 6,000 mile Long March by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ended when the columns of troops led by Mao Zedong arrived in ...
October 18, 2019
19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama
After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle of ...
October 17, 2019
18th October 1922: British Broadcasting Company established
On the 18th October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was ...
October 16, 2019
17th October 1933: Einstein moves to the USA after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January ...
October 15, 2019
16th October 1793: The Execution of Marie Antoinette
At 12.15pm on the afternoon of the 16th October 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in ...
October 14, 2019
15th October 1764: Edward Gibbon first considers The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of ...
