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Back to Search25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada
The Battle of Stamford Bridge saw both sides suffer heavy casualties but, with Harald Hardrada slain in battle, the English emerged ...
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24th September 1954: Iconic AEC Routemaster London bus revealed at the Commercial Motor Show at Earl’s Court
The vehicle, designated RM1, was conceived by London Transport to replace its extensive trolleybus network with motor buses and was developed in conj…
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23rd September 1974: BBC launches Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide ...
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22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution
Hale volunteered to gather intelligence on British troop movements and strategies but was captured, swiftly subjected to a trial by British authoriti…
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21st September 1792: French First Republic begins when the National Convention formally abolish the monarchy
The Convention unanimously decreed that ‘royalty is abolished in France’ and subsequently ordered that official documents should be dated from ‘the f…
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20th September 1835: The start of the Ragamuffin War in Brazil
The Ragamuffin War began when Brazilian rebels in the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul captured Porto ...
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19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation
The German forces reached the outskirts of the French capital on 15 September and General Helmuth von Moltke, the commander of the Prussian army, gav…
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18th September 1870: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition to the Yellowstone region sees a large geyser they named Old Faithful.
Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and several geyser basins where they encountered numerous geothermal features, including the geyser that t…
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17th September 1978: Camp David Accords signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
The talks concluded with the signing of two separate agreements – ‘A Framework for Peace in the Middle East’ and ‘A Framework for the Conclusion of a…
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16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian after George Harrison steps in to provide funding
Claimed by its fans to be the greatest comedy film of all time, Life of Brian has courted controversy since its release due to its satirical portraya…
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