This Day in History Class

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From the desk of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” “This Day in History Class” quickly recounts a tidbit from today’s events in history.

Episodes

Introducing: Health Stuff

Introducing: Hoax!

Introducing: American History Hotline

Introducing: United States of Kennedy

A laugh track is used in a TV show for the first time - September 9th, 1950

Carnation processes its first cans of evaporated milk - September 6th, 1899

AIDS activists wrap a giant condom over Senator Jesse Helms’ house - September 5th, 1991

Barney Flaherty becomes America's first paperboy - September 4th, 1833

Flashback episode - September 3rd

Flashback episode - September 2nd

The Moscow-Washington hotline is established - August 30th, 1963

British women join the war effort - August 29th, 1914

The "Tom Thumb" locomotive races a horse-drawn railroad car - August 28th, 1830

"The Guinness Book of Records” is published - August 27th, 1955

A Major League baseball game is televised for the first time - August 26th, 1939

The state of Franklin declares independence - August 23rd, 1784

Walt Disney's "The Skeleton Dance" premieres in theaters - August 22nd, 1929

An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota - August 21st, 1883

NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft - August 20th, 1977

Benjamin Banneker writes to Thomas Jefferson in support of abolition - August 19th, 1791