September 2
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 2. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Crash of Swissair flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia; Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France and dies 24 years later
June 11
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: June 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Jeannette Rankin; birth of Gene Wilder; Guangxu emperor of China issued his first reform decree initiating the Hundred Days of Reform
August 7
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. 1st murder by Jack the Ripper committed, Ke$ha hit song "Tik Tok" released, death of Oliver Hardy.
August 5
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Marilyn Monroe; birth of Neil Armstrong; the US, USSR, and UK sign the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile
June 12
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: June 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pulse nightclub shooting; Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison; birth of Anne Frank; the Philipppines declares independence from Spain
July 15
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 15. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of American singer Linda Ronstadt; the unmanned space probe Mariner 4 returned close-up pictures of the surface of Mars; the murder of Gianni Versace.
August 12
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sue the T-Rex discovered; Lennon declares the Beatles "more popular than Jesus"; Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
May 11
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov; Adolf Eichmann captured; HMS Beagle launched; Bikini Atoll nuclear-weapons tests
May 10
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. John Wilkes Booth; Jacques Cousteau; Victoria Woodhull; Halley's Comet; double-agent Robert Hanssen
May 12
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. End of blockade of West Berlin; Sichuan earthquake; birth of Tony Hawk, George Carlin, and Florence Nightingale; Jimmy Carter visits Cuba
August 10
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein, Meredith Malone
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, overthrow of French King Louis XVI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court.
July 7
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of figure skater Michelle Kwan; Satchel Paige born; contstruction began on Hoover Dam; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born
July 5
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, was born; 26th Amendment certified; bikini debuts; Isaac Newton's Principia was published; Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon
September 11
by Meg Matthais
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Christiana Riot of 1851; 9/11 terrorist attacks
September 7
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Elizbeth I; murder of Tupac Shakur; Muslim army of Saladin attacked the Crusaders of Richard the Lionheart at the Battle of Arsuf
Earth Day
by Meg Matthais
read by Kurt Heintz, Melissa Petruzzello
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: special podcast on Earth Day; the day's origins plus interview with Britannica botany editor Melissa Petruzzello
August 3
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais, Henry Bolzon
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Martha Stewart; voyage of atomic submarine Nautilus; Christopher Columbus began the first of four transatlantic voyages.
September 15
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 15. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Agatha Christie; Confederate capture of Harper's Ferry during the American Civil War; bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL
September 3
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Labor Day celebrated as an official US holiday for the first time; death of director Frank Capra; murder of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco
June 9
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: June 9. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Margaret Thatcher elected to a second term; Donald Duck makes his movie debut; birth of Les Paul; Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes
May 9
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 9. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon; birth control; Mother's Day; Christopher Columbus
August 11
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Jackson Pollock, last game of the 1994 Major League Baseball season before players' labor strike, and Watts Rebellion.
September 10
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Arnold Palmer, Steffi Graff completes tennis's Grand Slam, closing of Cats on Broadway after a record 7,485 shows
Rosh Hashanah
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: special podcast on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holidays
May 2
by Kurt Heintz
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 2. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Lou Gehrig's 2,130-game streak comes to an end; King James version of Bible is published; Tony Blair ; Ella Fitzgerald; Red Baron; Osama bin Laden; Edvard Munch
August 6
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars; US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
July 13
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, John Rafferty
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Murder of Jean-Paul Marat; Live Aid benefit concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia; iconic Hollywood sign dedicated
September 9
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 9. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Mao Zedong; birth of Adam Sandler; death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
May 3
by Kurt Heintz
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize, Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister; Bing Crosby born; Bill Shoemaker; Beer Barrel Polka
May 1
by Kurt Heintz
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 1. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. May Day holiday; labor holiday; Occupy Wall Street; meaning of "mayday"
May 13
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pope John Paul II is shot; Dr. Joyce Brothers wins The $64K Question; birth of Stevie Wonder, Dennis Rodman, Stephen Colbert, Lena Dunham, and Richie Valens
May 4
by Kurt Heintz
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: May 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Haymarket Affair; Nixon and Vietnam; Kent State killings; Ken Livingstone; Al Capone; Peter Minuit; Grammy Awards: Adam Yauch; Greensburg, KS
August 13
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein, Henry Bolzon, Matt Abbott
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Julia Child; Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán winning Mexico for the crown of Spain; birth of Alfred Hitchcock.
August 4
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Barack Obama; launch of US space probe Phoenix; and birth of Louis Armstrong.
July 6
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Althea Gibson is first Black person to win Wimbledon; activist Marsha P. Johnson was found dead; Louis Pasteur performs first rabies vaccination.
July 4
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Independence Day; death of presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; birth of Rube Goldberg; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published
September 1
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 1. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of "Dr. Phil" - Phil McGraw; last known passenger pigeon dies; Germany invades Poland marking the beginning of World War II
July 9
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 9 Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Catherine the Great overthrows her husband, Peter III, begins her reign as empress of Russia; birth of Nikola Tesla, birth of O.J. Simpson
Easter Special
by Meg Matthais
read by Kurt Heintz, Henry Bolzon
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: Easter. Special podcast on the origins and history of Easter.
July 10
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Yvette C. Lee
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Mary McLeod Bethune; birth of Mel Blanc; Scopes Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee.
August 14
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Earvin "Magic" Johnson; construction of the Cologne Cathedral completed; Michael Jackson takes control of Beatles publishing rights.
July 8
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 8. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon; William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech; John D. and Nelson Rockefeller born; death of Kim Il-Sung
September 25
by Meg Matthais
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein, Emily Miller
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 25. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. President Cleveland pardons polygamous Mormons; birth of William Faulkner; Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
August 25
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein, Henry Bolzon
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 25. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. 1835 hoax in the New York Sun about life on the Moon; liberation of Paris following World War II; Alger Hiss testifies in front of HUAC
September 18
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 18. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of cyclist Lance Armstrong; death of musician Jimi Hendrix; birth of Greta Garbo.
Lunar New Year
by Meg Matthais
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: Lunar New Year. A special podcast on significant holidays.
June 27
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: June 27. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Yen adopted; Joseph Smith murdered; color tv demonstrated; birthday of Helen Keller; death of Jack Lemmon
August 21
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais, Henry Bolzon
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 21. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Lincoln-Douglas debates; Hawaii becomes 50th US state; Nat Turner led an unsuccessful slave rebellion
