Scott Allsop's Blog, page 96
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 ...
October 15, 2022
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...
October 14, 2022
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 ...
October 13, 2022
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...
October 12, 2022
13th October 54: The Roman Emperor Claudius dies, supposedly after being poisoned
Ancient sources state that the Emperor Claudius as poisoned, although who administered the poison - and on whose orders - continues to be fiercely debated by ...
October 11, 2022
12th October 1810: First Oktoberfest takes place in Munich to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen
The decision to repeat a horse race from the original celebration the following year led to the establishment of the annual festival at which beer halls and carnival stalls soon began to ...
October 10, 2022
11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X
The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant ...
October 9, 2022
10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...
October 8, 2022
9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia
Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian ...
