HistoryPod Podcast Transcripts
Scott Allsop · 98 episodes with transcripts
The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'.
Spoken has transcripts of 98 HistoryPod episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 18, 2026.
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18th October 1967: Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 becomes the first to enter the atmosphere of Venus and transmit scientific data back to Earth
October 18, 2026
Scott Allsop (0:00)
On 18th October 1967, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 became the first to enter the atmosphere of Venus and transmit scientific data back to Earth. Welcome to HistoryPod.
Venus had proved a difficult planet to study from Earth as its surface was permanently hidden beneath thick clouds. While the earlier Venera 3 had struck Venus in 1966, making it the first human-made object to reach the surface of another planet, communications had failed before it could return scientific…
- 18th October 1967: Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 becomes the first to enter the atmosphere of Venus and transmit scientific data back to Earth
- 15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic
- 12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great
- 9th October 1665: King Charles II moves Parliament to the University of Oxford to escape the Great Plague
- 6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City
- 3rd October 1952: Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, its first test of an atomic bomb
- 30th September 1960: The Flintstones broadcast for the first time as the world’s first animated sitcom
- 27th September 1825: Stockton and Darlington Railway opens as the first public railway to make regular use of steam locomotives
- 24th September 1954: Iconic AEC Routemaster London bus revealed at the Commercial Motor Show at Earl’s Court
- 21st September 1792: French First Republic begins when the National Convention formally abolish the monarchy
- 18th September 1870: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition to the Yellowstone region sees a large geyser they named Old Faithful.
- 15th September 1959: Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States
- 12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France
- 9th September 1513: Battle of Flodden marks the largest battle to ever take place between Scotland and England
- 6th September 1914: First Battle of the Marne begins with a French counter-offensive against the advancing German army
- 3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance
- 30th August 1813: Red Stick Creek warriors attack Fort Mims in the Mississippi Territory
- 27th August 1916: Romania enters the First World War by declaring war on Austria-Hungary
- 24th August 1814: The Burning of Washington sees British forces during the War of 1812 capture and set fire to many principal public buildings
- 21st August 1945: The Demon Core fatally irradiates physicist Harry Daghlian during an experiment at Los Alamos Laboratory
- 18th August 1940: “The Hardest Day” of the Battle of Britain during the Second World War
- 15th August 1969: Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm near Bethel in New York
- 12th August 1977: Space Shuttle Enterprise completes the first free flight of the Space Shuttle programme
- 9th August 1944: Smokey Bear, the forest fire prevention mascot, first appears on a poster in the United States
- 6th August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law during the height of the Civil Rights movement
- 3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “The lamps are going out all over Europe…”
- 28th July 1755: Expulsion of the Acadians agreed by British Lieutenant Governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council
- 25th July 1792: Brunswick Manifesto during the French Revolution threatened retaliation if the royal family was harmed
- 22nd July 1894: World’s first organised automobile race takes place between Paris and Rouen
- 19th July 1843: The ship SS Great Britain designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel launched in Bristol
- 16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco
- 13th July 1930: Inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay during the centenary of the country’s first constitution
- 10th July 1991: Boris Yeltsin is inaugurated as the first elected President of Russia
- 7th July 1937: Marco Polo Bridge Incident acts as a trigger for the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 4th July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence adopted unanimously by the Second Continental Congress
- 1st July 1569: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created with the signing of the Union of Lublin
- 28th June 1838: Queen Victoria crowned at Westminster Abbey following the death of her uncle, William IV
- 25th June 1967: Our World, live global television production, broadcast using satellite technology
- 22nd June 1941: Operation Barbarossa begins as German forces and their allies invade the Soviet Union during the Second World War
- 19th June 1846: First officially recorded baseball game takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey
- 16th June 1824: Reformers meet in London to establish what becomes the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- 13th June 1917: The deadliest air raid on London of the First World War conducted by German Gotha bombers
- 10th June 1605: False Dmitry I enters Moscow and is recognised as tsar following the death of Boris Godunov
- 7th June 1788: Day of the Tiles breaks out in the French city of Grenoble, serving as an early precursor to the French Revolution
- 4th June 1916: Russian Army begins the Brusilov Offensive on the Eastern Front of the First World War
- 1st June 1980: CNN begins broadcasting as the first 24-hour news channel
- 29th May 1854: Paddington Station opens as the London terminus of the Great Western Railway
- 26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit
- 23rd May 1701: Captain Kidd, the Scottish privateer, executed in London after being convicted of piracy and murder
- 20th May 325: First Council of Nicaea brings together bishops from across the early Christian world
- 23rd April 2005: “Me at the zoo” is the first video to be uploaded to YouTube
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