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.
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
July 14
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Henry Bolzon
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: July 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder; Bastille Day; birth of animator William Hanna; death of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
August 28
by Meg Matthias
read by Kurt Heintz, Emil Goldstein
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 28. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech; murder of Emmett Till
September 17
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: September 17. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. First Occupy Wall Street protest held in the US; assassination of Greve Folke Bernadotte; Camp David Accords completed.
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
Diwali
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: Diwali. A special podcast on significant holidays.
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
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
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 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
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 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
August 31
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: August 31. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Caligula; Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope; death of Diana, princess of Wales.
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.
Thanksgiving
by Emily Goldstein
read by Kurt Heintz
Part of the On this Day series
On This Day: Thanksgiving, in the US and Canada. A special podcast on significant holidays
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.
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.
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