Scott Allsop's Blog, page 92
October 25, 2022
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, ...
October 24, 2022
25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt
Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than ...
October 23, 2022
24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis
World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from ...
October 22, 2022
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, 2022
22nd October 1895: Granville–Paris Express train crashes through a wall at the Gare Montparnasse railway station
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, 2022
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster after a colliery spoil tip collapses
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, 2022
20th October 1935: The 6,000 mile Long March by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ends when the troops led by Mao Zedong arrive in Shaanxi
It was during the Long March that Mao Zedong emerged as the best person to lead the Chinese Communist Party, and his survival alongside less than 10% of the original troops mythologised him and reinforced his ...
October 18, 2022
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, 2022
18th October 1922: The British Broadcasting Company established
The new broadcasting company was a consortium of the UK’s leading radio manufacturers, and was jointly funded through a royalty on the sale of radio sets sold by the member producers and a license ...
October 16, 2022
17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery
Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight ...
