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The Dingo Baby-Snatcher
Episode 617
Rerun. When two month-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken from her tent by a dingo on the night of August 17th, 1980, the majority of the Australian pub…
2 years, 4 months ago
The First Accidental President
Episode 616
Angry protestors gathered outside The White House on 16th August, 1841, burning an effigy of President John Tyler, the first Vice-President to assume…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Real Macbeth
Episode 615
Immortalised by Shakespeare, Scottish king Macbeth was killed in battle near Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire on 15th August 1057; a demise that brought sign…
2 years, 5 months ago
Capturing Carlos The Jackal
Episode 614
A decades-long manhunt closed in on international terrorist Illich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, on 14th August, 1994 - when he was sedated…
2 years, 5 months ago
America's Biggest Mall
Episode 612
The Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened on 11th August, 1992, with more than 10,000 employees, 330 stores, and a Camp Snoopy theme par…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Slap Heard Around The World
Episode 611
Rerun. Whilst visiting traumatised U.S. soldiers in an evacuation hospital on 10th August, 1943, General George S. Patton encountered a man he believ…
2 years, 5 months ago
India's First Christians
Episode 610
Quilon, in present-day Kerala, became India’s first diocese on 9th August, 1329. In response to Marco Polo's accounts about an extant Christian commu…
2 years, 5 months ago
I Need A Dollar
Episode 609
The dollar emerged as the official currency of the United States at a meeting of the Continental Congress on 8th August, 1786. During the American Re…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Aryan Polynesian Hypothesis
Episode 608
The Kon-Tiki expedition, led by Norwegian explorer and ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl, reached Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelag near Tahiti, on 7th Augus…
2 years, 5 months ago
Put Him in the Stocks!
Episode 606
The public stocks in St Clement’s Dane’s parish (now Portugal Street in London’s Strand) were finally dismantled on 4th August, 1826. They had origin…
2 years, 5 months ago