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Chimps In Space!
Episode 452
Before Yuri Gagarin, before Alan Shepard… a chimp called Ham was blasted into space for six-and-a-half minutes of weightlessness on 31st January, 196…
2 years, 11 months ago
Hannah Hauxwell: Britain’s First Reality Star
Episode 451
Running a remote Yorkshire farm, with no flushing toilet and no electricity is an unlikely route to TV stardom, but 46 year-old spinster Hannah Hauxw…
2 years, 11 months ago
Let’s Embalm Lenin
Episode 449
The corpse of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, was placed on display in Moscow's Red Square on 27th January, 1924 - where, astonishingly,…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brides on the Move
Episode 448
Rerun. Sometimes termed ‘The Diaper Run’ due to the large number of babies on-board, the S.S. Argentina set sail from Southampton to New York City on…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Nellie Bly Express
Episode 447
Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly returned from her 72-day trip around the world on 25th January, 1890. The final leg of the journey was upon a charte…
2 years, 11 months ago
27 Years in the Jungle
Episode 446
Japanese ‘holdout’ Shoichi Yokoi had been hiding out in the jungles of Guam since the Second World War when he was discovered by hunters on 24th Janu…
2 years, 11 months ago
Rock N Roll’s Big Night
Episode 445
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame welcomed its first inductees in a star-studded event at the Waldorf Astoria, New York on 23rd January, 1986. But the c…
2 years, 11 months ago
Lalli and the Axe
Episode 443
According to Finnish legend, a peasant farmer named Lalli murdered the Christian missionary Bishop Henry on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi on January 2…
2 years, 11 months ago
Introducing the BlackBerry
Episode 442
Rerun. Research In Motion were once the world’s most popular maker of smartphones, but when they launched the BlackBerry 850 on 19th January, 1999, t…
2 years, 11 months ago
The 17th Century UFO
Episode 441
One of earliest recorded UFO sightings in America happened on 18th January, 1644 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when lights rose out of the water ne…
2 years, 11 months ago