On this day: Winston Churchill’s great prison escape
The future British PM was an ambitious young journalist caught up in a war zone when he pulled off a breakout worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster
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On this day: How farmer pulled off greatest hoax in history
Crowds flocked to see the enormous petrified figure dug out of a Cardiff field even when its veracity was questioned
The man who gave us Buckley’s chance
His escape from the penal colony, which saw one convict shot and others turn back in despair, was itself against the odds. His survival for 30 years in the bush before re-emerging as the “Wild White Man”, defied them completely.
Hungry dogs put Pavlov on track for Nobel Prize
When Ivan Pavlov noticed dogs in his laboratory drooled at the expectation of food, it inspired a revolutionary series of experiments which had many implications for modern science
Beaumonts’ mother took heartache to the grave
Shy Adelaide mum Nancy Beaumont lost her children and eventually her marriage to one of Australia’s most intruguing unsolved mysteries
Today in history: Alexander Hamilton appointed to US Treasury
The banknote with his face on it and the hit musical based on his life were still years away but the long association between Alexander Hamilton and the US Treasury began on this day 230 years ago.
Day we went to war against Hitler
When the new prime minister of Australia Robert Menzies walked into a radio studio on September 3, 1939 he had the weight of the nation on his shoulders, declaring war on Germany
World’s largest village took on neo-Nazi haters
When Neo-Nazis tried to hold a march through the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, the normally quiet village made the news around the world
Extraordinary legacy of an ordinary man
The roughly typed manuscript tied up with string didn’t promise much but it delivered a small publisher a bestseller
Unsung vaccination hero saved millions of lives
When Dr Maurice Hilleman read about a flu outbreak in Hong Kong in 1957 he sounded the alarm about a coming pandemic
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