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Back to Search4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...
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3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...
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2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade
The Treaty of Jaffa established a three-year truce and confirmed that Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, although Christian pilgrims would …
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World ...
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31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water
Physician John Snow investigated the outbreak by mapping cholera cases in the area, which showed a clear concentration of cases around the public wat…
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30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...
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29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction
Faraday constructed an apparatus consisting of two coils of wire wound around opposite sides of an iron ring, and when he connected one coil to a bat…
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28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream…
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27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States
At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depressio…
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26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces
Exploiting intercepted Russian radio messages, which had not been encrypted, the Germans were able to anticipate the Russians’ movements and concentr…
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