Episodios

  • 26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

    26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
    Nov 26 2025
    Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever ...
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  • 25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow

    25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow
    Nov 25 2025
    Under Yezhov's leadership the NKVD launched a campaign of arrests targeting party members, military officers, and civilians that saw widespread purges, forced confessions, and executions. Estimates of those killed range into the hundreds of ...
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  • 23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces

    23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces
    Nov 23 2025
    The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...
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  • 22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations

    22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations
    Nov 22 2025
    The hijackings showed a figure dressed as Max Headroom, a fictional artificial-intelligence television personality created in the mid-1980s and presented as “the world’s first computer-generated TV host”, in front of a sheet of corrugated ...
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  • 19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology

    19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology
    Nov 19 2025
    The Wii's defining feature was the Wii Remote, a wireless controller that could be swung, pointed, or tilted that enabled physical actions to correspond directly with on-screen ...
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  • 18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal

    18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal
    Nov 18 2025
    By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the Allies had advanced more than six miles into German-held ...
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  • 17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

    17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
    Nov 17 2025
    The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik ...
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