HistoryPod
History Podcasts
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
Location:
United States
Description:
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
Twitter:
@history_pod
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.historypod.net/
Email:
admin@historypod.net
23rd April 1348: Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England
Duration:00:01:53
22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush takes place with 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands opened to settlement
Duration:00:01:36
21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union
Duration:00:05:30
20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria
Duration:00:02:11
19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show
Duration:00:05:03
18th April 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington with his message that “the Regulars are coming out!”
Duration:00:02:03
17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants
Duration:00:02:20
16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opens as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre
Duration:00:05:04
15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster
Duration:00:02:09
14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era
Duration:00:02:03
13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks
Duration:00:02:01
12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Duration:00:02:16
11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson
Duration:00:05:22
10th April 1815: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history occurred at Mount Tambora
Duration:00:02:14
9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Duration:00:01:50
8th April 1838: SS Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York as the first steamship specifically built for transatlantic travel
Duration:00:02:07
7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference
Duration:00:05:04
6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France
Duration:00:02:07
5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island
Duration:00:01:55
4th April 1925: Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of the SS
Duration:00:02:19