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Marie Antoinette's Wedding
Episode 842
Rerun: The future Queen of France was accompanied by 57 carriages, 117 footmen and 376 horses on her journey from Austria to Versailles - but remarka…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Unkillable King George
Episode 841
George III narrowly dodged a bullet for the SECOND time in one day on 15th May, 1800, as he attended a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. …
1 year, 8 months ago
The First Two Minute Silence
Episode 840
The two minute silence can be traced back to 14th May, 1918, when it was first observed in Cape Town, South Africa.
Repeated daily for a year, and in…
1 year, 8 months ago
Cardinal Richelieu and the Table Knife
Episode 839
Disdain for bad table manners reportedly led 17th Century Machiavelli Cardinal Richelieu to insist that knives should be flattened at his table on 13…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Lady Who Left Her Baby Outside
Episode 837
As Annette Sorensen drank margaritas in a New York BBQ restaurant on May 10th, 1997, she left her 14 month-old daughter outside, in a stroller.
She s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Captain Blood and the Crown Jewels
Episode 836
Rerun: Fugitive Thomas Blood sneaked his way into the Tower of London’s jewel room on 9th May, 1671 - bludgeoning the 77 year-old Keeper of the Jewel…
1 year, 8 months ago
Cocaine + Caffeine = Coca-Cola
Episode 835
John Pemberton launched Coca-Cola from a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on 8th May, 1886. Legend has it that a serendipitous mishap had led to the add…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Earliest Ambulance
Episode 834
Rerun: During the Siege of Malaga, on 7th May 1487, Queen Isabella of Spain commissioned bespoke bed-wagons to transport injured soldiers from the ba…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sending Out Spam
Episode 832
The first ‘spam’ email, sent to ARPANET users on behalf of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), landed in Inboxes on 3rd May, 1978.
Marketer Gary …
1 year, 8 months ago
Creating The King James Bible
Episode 831
Accessible and rigorous, the King James Bible was published on 2nd May, 1611, at the behest of the Monarch after which it was named - and perhaps eve…
1 year, 8 months ago