Cavell Executed; Typhoon Tip; MMP Election; Bali Bombing; EU Nobel; Hotel Collapse

Podcast: A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

A Daily Dose of History (13 Oct 2026) Today's historical events: World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium. Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First. Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The...