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#OnThisDay in 1950, US President Harry S Truman survived an assassination attempt. Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to shoot their way into Blair House – the president's home while the White House was being refurbished – but police officers intercepted them. 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1965, Jean Shrimpton attended the Victoria Racing Club in Melbourne wearing a dress which finished about 4 inches above her knee. Later this was seen as the moment the mini skirt was born, but on the day, she was met with a long, appalled silence. 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh's met a grisly end. Contrary to instructions, some of Raleigh’s men had attacked a local Spanish outpost during an expedition to Venezuela. The Spanish ambassador demanded blood. For this, he was executed in London. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Why have humans turned to ghosts and other supernatural forces in times of fear and uncertainty? Malcolm Gaskill explores centuries of strange beliefs – and the emotions that fuelled them 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 2007, after victory in the opening round of the presidential election, the Peronist politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became Argentina’s first elected female president. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Dan Jones surveys fortifications from across the ages and around the world to design his ultimate castle 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 1470, the 13-year-old Henry Tudor had an audience with Henry VI, who had recently been restored to the throne by the Earl of Warwick. It was later claimed that the king prophesied his nephew would one day rule England. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Chris Skidmore explores how Richard III's turbulent early years shaped his life and reign 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 1962, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to five years imprisonment for inciting workers to strike and for leaving South Africa illegally. By 1964, he was jailed for life for sabotage. 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1929, the American economy came crashing down. When the New York Stock Exchange opened in the morning, the market plunged by more than 10 per cent in the first few moments. Traders were sent into a frenzy as Wall Street collapsed. 📸 Getty
Front page of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" newspaper dated Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Main headline reads "Wall St. in Panic as Stocks Crash." Other headlines mention an attempt on Italy's Crown Prince, a Hollywood fire, and remarks from Coolidge. The page features black and white images, including one of a person and another of Calvin Coolidge. Two hands hold the newspaper at the bottom corners.

ALT Front page of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" newspaper dated Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Main headline reads "Wall St. in Panic as Stocks Crash." Other headlines mention an attempt on Italy's Crown Prince, a Hollywood fire, and remarks from Coolidge. The page features black and white images, including one of a person and another of Calvin Coolidge. Two hands hold the newspaper at the bottom corners.

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On the podcast | How do you make history funny – without losing sight of the facts? 'Ghosts' co-creator Laurence Rickard takes us inside the writers’ room 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 42 BC, Marcus Junius Brutus, a key conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, took his own life. After losing in battle, Brutus asked his old friends to help him. Supposedly, Strato held Brutus’s sword, upon which he “fell with such force". 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a balloon above Paris, making the world's first recorded parachute jump. 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1958, Stella Isaacs, Baroness Swanborough and Marchioness of Reading, became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Lords. During the Second World War she had founded the Women's Voluntary Service. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Andrew Kenrick unravels the amazing life of Juba – from a two-year-old Roman captive in 46BC, to ruling an African kingdom, married to Cleopatra's daughter 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the murdered US president John F Kennedy, astounded the world by marrying the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Toby Green takes us to the west African port of Cacheu in the mid 17th century and reveals why one of its leading figures caught the attention of the Portuguese Inquisition 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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#OnThisDay in 1469, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon married, creating united Spain. The ceremony took place roughly a week after they had met, and the royal couple even produced a (forged) papal bull for the event – because they were so closely related. 📸 Getty
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#OnThisDay in 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was founded by a group of leading wireless manufacturers. It was funded by a 10-shilling licence fee and made its first broadcast in November from the Marconi studio in The Strand, London. 📸 Getty
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On the podcast | Erin Maglaque explores the history of the female body – from 'nidgeting' to the supposed effects of a woman's imagination on her unborn child 🎧 Listen now on the HistoryExtra app, or wherever you get your podcasts
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