Best Scott Allsop Podcasts (2024)

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1st September 1969: Libyan Revolution brings Muammar Gaddafi to power following the overthrow of King Idris I

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In the early hours of September 1, while King Idris I was in Turkey receiving medical treatment, Gaddafi and the Free Officers Movement launched their coup that took control of key institutions in Tripoli and Benghazi, including military bases, government offices, and radio ...By Scott Allsop

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31st August 1888: Discovery of the first victim of Jack the Ripper in London

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On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of ...By Scott Allsop

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30th August 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the US Supreme Court

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President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69 to 11 on August ...By Scott Allsop

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29th August 1911: Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California

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28th August 1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm ends, prompting the term ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

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During a bank robbery in Stockholm, Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank workers hostage. They later began to exhibit sympathy towards their captors while becoming fearful of the police’s ...By Scott Allsop

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27th August 1896: Shortest recorded war in history fought between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar

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The British bombardment was swift and devastating, setting Zanzibar's palace and its buildings ablaze and killing or wounding approximately 500 men and women. The war lasted for barely 40 ...By Scott Allsop

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26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls

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25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

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Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, ...By Scott Allsop

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24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

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As the Kweilin Douglas DC-2 aircraft neared the city of Namyung in Guangdong province, it was intercepted by three Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighters that opened fire on the unarmed civilian ...By Scott Allsop

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23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

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22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

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The First Geneva Convention mandated protection and care for wounded and sick military personnel, regardless of nationality, as well as recognising the neutrality of medical personnel, field hospitals, and ...By Scott Allsop

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21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

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After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far ...By Scott Allsop

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20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

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At around 11pm on the 20th August 1968, troops from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia in an invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an ...By Scott Allsop

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19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

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On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August ...By Scott Allsop

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18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

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The Volksempfänger was simple and utilitarian, but made radio technology accessible to the general population and enabled it to be used as a means of disseminating Nazi ...By Scott Allsop

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17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

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16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

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The levée en masse affected the entire population and represented an unprecedented move by a government, as it extended the responsibility of national defence beyond professional soldiers to the general ...By Scott Allsop

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15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

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Josef Jakobs was found guilty of espionage by General Court Martial and taken to the miniature firing range at the Tower of London where he was strapped to a wooden Windsor chair and killed by firing squad at ...By Scott Allsop

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14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

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The announcement of the partition led to mass migrations, marred by violence, as Hindus and Sikhs moved to India while Muslims migrated to ...By Scott Allsop

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13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

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Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the ...By Scott Allsop

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12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan ...By Scott Allsop

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11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

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The conquest of Dacia was a strategic and economic victory for Rome, providing raw materials and a strong north-eastern ...By Scott Allsop

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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

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It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...By Scott Allsop

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9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

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The concert took place at the Philharmonic Hall, and was preceded by a Soviet artillery bombardment designed to silence the German lines during the ...By Scott Allsop

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8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

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Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...By Scott Allsop

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7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

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The crew all survived, and their expedition provided evidence supporting Heyerdahl’s hypothesis that it was possible for ancient South Americans to have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to ...By Scott Allsop

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6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

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In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of ...By Scott Allsop

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5th August 1962: Nelson Mandela arrested and jailed in South Africa

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On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without a ...By Scott Allsop

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4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

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President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...By Scott Allsop

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3rd August 1798: Battle of the Nile ends with a decisive British victory over the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars

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The turning point came when the French flagship, L'Orient, caught fire and exploded. The massive blast illuminated the night sky and demoralized the French ...By Scott Allsop

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2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

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The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...By Scott Allsop

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1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched

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Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...By Scott Allsop

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31st July 1917: Battle of Passchendaele begins during the First World War, resulting in one of the muddiest battles of the conflict

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The landscape was scarred by craters filled with water and, by the time the battle ended over three months later following the Canadian capture of the village of Passchendaele, there were approximately 500,000 casualties on both ...By Scott Allsop

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30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

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The city of Baghdad was founded by the Abbasid Caliph ...By Scott Allsop

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29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada

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The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of ...By Scott Allsop

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28th July 1932: Bonus Marchers forcibly evicted from Washington D.C. by the Army

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Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas ...By Scott Allsop

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27th July 1794: Thermidorian Reaction begins in France with the arrest of Maximilien Robspierre

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In an attempt to evade capture Robespierre only succeeded in shattering his jaw when he reputedly attempted to shoot himself with a pistol, and spent the rest of the night on a table in the Committee of General Security before he was executed by ...By Scott Allsop

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26th July 1948: Truman abolished racial segregation in the US military with Executive Order 9981

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President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. ...By Scott Allsop

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25th July 1934: Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, assassinated by members of the Austrian Nazi Party

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Members of the Austrian Nazi Party, seeking to annex Austria into Nazi Germany, stormed the Chancellery building in Vienna where they shot and fatally wounded Dollfuss, who succumbed to his injuries later that ...By Scott Allsop

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24th July 1911: Machu Picchu ‘rediscovered’ by US explorer Hiram Bingham III

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Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in ...By Scott Allsop

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23rd July 1952: Egyptian Revolution begins, leading to the overthrow of King Farouk I and the end of British influence in Egypt

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The Free Officers, led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, launched a coup that seized key military installations and government buildings in Cairo with minimal ...By Scott Allsop

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22nd July 1706: Terms of the Acts of Union 1707 agreed by commissioners from England and Scotland

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On the 22nd July 1706, the foundation for the establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain was laid when commissioners from England and Scotland agreed the Acts of ...By Scott Allsop

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21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt

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Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 ...By Scott Allsop

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20th July 1801: The Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, is produced for President Thomas Jefferson, and weighs 1,235lbs

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Weighing more than half a ton, the completed cheese was marked with the Jeffersonian motto ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’ and was presented to President Jefferson on January 1, ...By Scott Allsop

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19th July 1870: The Franco-Prussian War begins when Napoleon III declares war

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The Franco-Prussian War began with a declaration of war by the French emperor, Napoleon ...By Scott Allsop

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18th July 1966: The Hough Riots begin in Cleveland, Ohio

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Riots broke out in the in the predominantly African-American community of Hough in Cleveland, ...By Scott Allsop

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17th July 1917: King George V changes the name of the British royal family to the House of Windsor

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Amidst enormous anti-German sentiment during the First World War, King George V made a historic proclamation that all descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the male line, who were British subjects, would bear the surname ...By Scott Allsop

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16th July 1935: World’s first parking meter installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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The meters were installed along the southeast corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City, and charged 5 cents per hour. They proved effective in regulating parking spaces and ensuring a higher turnover rate, which benefited local ...By Scott Allsop

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15th July 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrenders to the British

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Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS ...By Scott Allsop

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14th July 1915: McMahon-Hussein Correspondence begins, resulting in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in World War I

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While Hussein believed Britain had agreed to recognise a vast independent Arab state, the British maintained that certain areas were excluded. This ambiguity went on to fuel later tensions and conflict in the Middle ...By Scott Allsop

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