Richard Cavendish

The famed radio broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds took place on October 30th, 1938.

John Paul II was elected on October 16th, 1978. He was the first non-Italian pope to be elected in four centuries.

Nelson was born on 29 September 1758.

Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928.

The agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on 29 September 1938.

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Aug 27 1928

Richard Cavendish remembers what now appears the most brittle of peace pacts.

John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858.

John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of a colour television transmission on 3 July 1928.

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered on July 17th, 1918.