Episodios

  • 24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah

    24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah
    Jul 24 2025
    After travelling more than 1,000 miles across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, the party of 148 Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley led by Brigham ...
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  • 23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries

    23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries
    Jul 23 2025
    The ultimatum was delivered at 6pm on 23 July by the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Belgrade, with a deadline of 48 hours within which the Serbian government had to respond. The accepted all but one of the ...
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  • 22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico

    22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico
    Jul 22 2025
    On 22 July, after travelling more than 3,000 miles, Mackenzie and his party reached the Pacific tidewaters at Dean Channel, near present-day Bella Coola, British ...
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  • 21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia

    21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia
    Jul 21 2025
    Union troops, facing increasing resistance and mounting casualties, began to retreat in what soon turned into a disorganised ...
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  • 20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

    20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
    Jul 20 2025
    Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother ...
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  • 19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII

    19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII
    Jul 19 2025
    According to contemporary accounts, the Mary Rose had just fired a broadside at the French navy, and was turning when she keeled over and ...
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  • 18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California

    18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California
    Jul 18 2025
    Corrigan later claimed that a navigational error, caused by a faulty compass and poor weather conditions, had led him to fly east to Ireland instead of west to ...
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  • 17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg

    17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg
    Jul 17 2025
    The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the ...
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