Transatlantic Flight; Companys Executed; FORTRAN Debut; West Gate Collapse; Flight 460 Crash; Shenzhou 5 Launch

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

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

A Daily Dose of History (16 Oct 2026) Today's historical events: The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government. FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community. During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day. Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board. China launches Shenzhou 5, i...