Scott Allsop's Blog, page 94

7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance

Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...

6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony

Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...

5th October 1936: The Jarrow March departs for London

The closure of Palmer's Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit ...

4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar

By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to ...

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

Boris III became Tsar of Bulgaria at the end of the First World War, just four days after his father, Ferdinand I, signed the Armistice of Thessalonica with the Allied ...

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known as the Kuomintang, since shortly after the end of the Second World ...

30th September 1967: Launch of BBC Radio 1 with the words ‘…and, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1’

Radio 1’s target demographic was, and has continued to be, the 15-29 year old age group which means the music it broadcasts has evolved throughout the station’s ...

29th September 1938: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reach an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

Seen by many as the ultimate act of failed appeasement, the Munich Agreement was tabled on 29 September and signed in the early hours of the next ...

28th September 1928: Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin, laying the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine

Fleming found that a petri dish containing staphylococci bacteria had been contaminated with an unidentified fungus. The bacteria around the fungus had been destroyed, whereas bacteria that were further away ...