HistoryPod
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The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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11th April 1979: The rule of Idi Amin in Uganda ends when opposing forces captur...
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10th April 1858: Big Ben, the bell inside the clock tower at the Palace of Westm...
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9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his...
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8th April 1820: Venus de Milo statue discovered on the Greek island of Milos in...
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7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intende...
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6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens.
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5th April 1958: Ripple Rock underwater mountain destroyed in one of the largest...
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4th April 1968: Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memph...
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3rd April 1860: The first Pony Express service goes into operation
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2nd April 1968: Science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey receives its world pr...
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1st April 1924: Adolf Hitler found guilty of treason for his role in the Beer Ha...
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31st March 1905: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany lands in Morocco where his speech...
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30th March 1981: Attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan in Washin...
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29th March 1974: Discovery of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China
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28th March 1871: The Paris Commune proclaimed, and Council met for the first tim...
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27th March 1958: Nikita Khrushchev consolidates his power over the USSR as Chair...
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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the...
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25th March 1957: Treaty of Rome signed, which laid the foundations for the Europ...
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24th March 1882: Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsibl...
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23rd March 1806: The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins its return journey
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22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in...
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21st March 1804: The Napoleonic Code, officially known as the Civil Code of the...
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20th March 1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany formally accepts Otto von Bismarck...
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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymo...
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18th March 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to cond...
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17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum
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16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the...
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15th March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne, ending more than...
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14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg str...
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12th March 1933: The first “fireside chat” delivered by US President Franklin D....
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11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-lan...
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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call...
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9th March 1945: USAF begin Operation Meetinghouse, the firebombing of Tokyo in t...
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8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters production, also known as...
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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm d...
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6th March 1820: The Missouri Compromise passed by the United States Congress to...
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5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic...
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4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time, and the United States Cons...
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3rd March 1878: Treaty of San Stefano lays the foundations for modern Bulgaria b...
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2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the...
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1st March 1692: Salem witch trials begin in Massachusetts
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28th February 202 BCE: The Han dynasty formally established in China by Liu Bang...
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27th February 1933: Reichstag building in Berlin set on fire in an arson attack
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26th February 1870: Beach Pneumatic Transit opens in New York as the first succe...
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25th February 1956: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivers his ‘secret speech’...
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24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates the throne amidst re...
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23rd February 1905: The world’s first Rotary Club founded in Chicago, Illinois,...
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22nd February 1943: First three members of the White Rose resistance group put o...
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21st February 1848: The Communist Manifesto anonymously published in London by K...
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