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America's Nazi Summer Camps
Episode 919
Rerun: Camp Siegfried hosted a ‘Nazi Camp Fete’ for 40,000 attendees on 15th August, 1938. The Summer resort, on Yaphank, Long Island, was the epicen…
1 year, 11 months ago
Inside The Stanford Prison Experiment
Episode 917
The Stanford Prison Experiment, created by Philip Zimbardo, began on 14th August, 1971.
24 male college students volunteered to be assigned roles as …
1 year, 11 months ago
The 'Mock' Battle of Manila
Episode 917
The ‘mock’ battle of Manila took place on 13th August, 1898, when the Spanish Army attempted to save face by staging a low-impact fight with the Amer…
1 year, 11 months ago
Singer's Sewing Machine
Episode 916
Isaac Singer's iteration of a mechanised sewing machine received US Patent Number 8294 on 12th August, 1851.
By refining an existing design by Elias …
1 year, 11 months ago
Britain's First Nudist Beach
Episode 914
Rerun: Black Rock - a 200-yard strip of pebbly beach in Brighton - was first set aside for naked bathers on 9th August, 1979. It came after a campaig…
1 year, 11 months ago
When The Beatles Crossed The Road
Episode 913
Rerun: Abbey Road was a street known only to North Londoners until The Beatles posed on the zebra crossing outside EMI Studios on 8th August, 1969. P…
1 year, 11 months ago
California's Courtroom Siege
Episode 912
Jonathan Jackson, teenage brother of imprisoned black power activist George Jackson, entered the Marin County Courthouse concealing three guns under …
1 year, 11 months ago
Meet The Addams Family
Episode 911
The Addams Family debuted as a one-panel cartoon in The New Yorker on 6th August, 1938.
Created by Charles Addams, the family (who for decades were e…
2 years ago
Let's Revive Welsh
Episode 910
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party, was founded on 5th August, 1925, with a principal mission to revive the Welsh language.
Despite boasting a h…
2 years ago
Who Killed William II?
Episode 908
Rerun: William II, son of William The Conqueror, took a hunting trip to the New Forest on 2nd August, 1100 - and was shot dead by an arrow, which pun…
2 years ago