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The Self Service Revolution
Episode 937
Rerun: Clarence Saunders opened the world’s first self-service supermarket, ‘Piggly Wiggly’, in Memphis, Tennessee on 6th September, 1916.
Calculating…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bring On The Beard Tax
Episode 936
Rerun: Peter The Great levied a tax on facial hair on 5th September, 1698, requiring every man in Moscow to shave or stump up some cash - although th…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Night The Earls Vanished
Episode 935
When 90 Irish nobles, led by the Earl of Tyrconnell and the Earl of Tyrone, fled for Normandy in the dead of night on 4th September, 1607, their inte…
1 year, 4 months ago
Introducing eBay
Episode 934
In today’s episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly look into the founding of the massive multinational e-commerce company eBay.
On the day it went live it was…
1 year, 4 months ago
Australia's Bikie Shootout
Episode 933
Millperra, a quiet suburb in southwest Sydney, is now best known for a tragic event that took place on 2nd September, 1984: a violent shootout betwee…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Moscow-Washington Hotline
Episode 931
Rerun: After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviets and Americans agreed to install a ‘hot line’ between their Presidents. On 30th August, 1963, a 10,…
1 year, 4 months ago
How Netflix Began
Episode 930
When Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Reed Hastings and Mark Randolph registered the website that would become Netflix on 29th August, 1997, they named i…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Dizzy Leap From Brooklyn Bridge
Episode 929
Larry Donovan made headlines by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge on 28th August, 1886: a daring feat that earned him the name of the ‘Champion Jumper …
1 year, 4 months ago
Krakatoa!
Episode 927
The awesome, brutal power of the Krakatoa eruption, which had the explosive force of a 200-megatonne bomb, killed more than 36,000 people and cooled …
1 year, 4 months ago
Bogie and Bacall Burn Up The Screen
Episode 926
Rerun: Howard Hawks’ film noir ‘The Big Sleep’ finally hit cinemas on 23rd August, 1946, after extra crowd-pleasing repartee had been inserted, featu…
1 year, 4 months ago