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The First Michelin Guide
Episode 1209
Andre and Edouard Michelin published their first Guide on 1st August, 1900. Now recognised as the gold standard in luxury restaurant reviews, the or…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Great Rum Debate
Episode 1208
The Royal Navy were issued with their final daily ration of rum - ending a tradition of more than 300 years - on July 31, 1970. The day became known …
5 months, 1 week ago
Where's Jimmy Hoffa?
Union boss Jimmy Hoffa left his Michigan home for what was supposed to be a peace summit with mobsters Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone on 30…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The First Boy Scouts
Episode 1206
Robert Paden-Powell took twenty boys to Brownsea Island, Poole on 29th July, 1907, to embark on a ten-day camp. The trip was, essentially, a laborato…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Plane That Crashed into the Empire State
Episode 1205
Captain William Smith, a decorated World War II pilot, was flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber on a routine mission on 28th July, 1945. In heavy fog over N…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it's Hovercraft
Episode 1203
The Hovercraft SR-N1, piloted by Captain Peter Lamb, sailed from Calais to Dover on 25th July 1959, fifty years to the day after Louis Blériot made t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Aussies Who Outswam The Soviets
Episode 1202
The ‘Quietly Confident Quartet’ of Mark Tonelli (backstroke), Peter Evans (breaststroke), Mark Kerry (butterfly), and Neil Brooks (freestyle) won Gol…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside The Molly House
Episode 1201
Margaret "Mother" Clap stood before a London court on 23rd July, 1726, accused of running a “Molly house” - a social club for gay men that was part-b…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The World's First Motor Race
Episode 1200
Billed as a concours for ‘horseless carriages’, the Paris–Rouen competition which took place on 22nd July, 1894, is now widely considered the world’s…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Let's Build Central Park
Episode 1199
New York City's iconic green space, Central Park - larger than Monaco and Vatican City combined - was legislated for on 21st July, 1853. Over 750 acr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago