Richard Cavendish

The man who founded the Tudor dynasty was born on January 28th, 1457.

Alexander I succeeded his father Malcolm Canmore, Macbeth's killer, as King of Scots on January 8th, 1107.

On January 5th, 1757, Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate Louis XV.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a great fortress being sacked, on August 15th, 1209.

The discoverer of the electron was born 18 December 1856.

The premiere of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Vienna opera house on December 23rd, 1806, was not a success.

Fidel Castro's first, unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Cuban regime began on December 2nd, 1956.

The astronomer was born on November 8th 1656.

Segregation on buses in Alabama officially ended on November 13th, 1956.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of November 2nd, 1906.