Emily Goldstein

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On This Day: August (21 Titles)

On This Day: August (21 Titles)

Hear the stories that propelled us to the present day through insights that lend perspective to our world with a nod to our own humanity. Britannica media editor Kurt Heintz, together with Emily Goldstein and Meg Matthias, is on a mission to spotlight...

On This Day: August 17.

On This Day: August 17.

On This Day: August 17. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Births of Mae West, Robert De Niro, and Marcus Garvey; film Life of Brian premiers; Governor John White finds Roanoke colony abandoned Author - Emily...

On This Day: August 18.

On This Day: August 18.

On This Day: August 18. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Genghis Kahn; birth of Patrick Swayze, Roberto Clemente, Robert Redford, and Virginia Dare; death of Subhas Chandra Bose. Author - Emily...

On This Day: August 19.

On This Day: August 19.

On This Day: August 19. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Coco Chanel; Lady Gaga's debut album The Flame released; death of Groucho Marx; Mikhail Gorbachev ousted in a coup Author - Emily Goldstein....

On This Day: August 20.

On This Day: August 20.

On This Day: August 20. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Launch of Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft; death of B. K. S. Iyengar; invasion of Czechoslovakia Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published...

On This Day: August 21.

On This Day: August 21.

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 Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: August 3.

On This Day: August 3.

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. Author - Emily...

On This Day: August 31.

On This Day: August 31.

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. Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published...

On This Day: August 4.

On This Day: August 4.

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. Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published Date -...

On This Day: August 5.

On This Day: August 5.

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 Author -...

On This Day: August 6.

On This Day: August 6.

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 Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published Date -...

On This Day: August 7.

On This Day: August 7.

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. Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: July (14 Titles)

On This Day: July (14 Titles)

Hear the stories that propelled us to the present day through insights that lend perspective to our world with a nod to our own humanity. Britannica media editor Kurt Heintz, together with Emily Goldstein and Meg Matthias, is on a mission to spotlight...

On This Day: July 10.

On This Day: July 10.

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. Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published...

On This Day: July 4.

On This Day: July 4.

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 Author - Emily...

On This Day: July 5.

On This Day: July 5.

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...

On This Day: July 6.

On This Day: July 6.

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. Author -...

On This Day: July 7.

On This Day: July 7.

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 Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator...

On This Day: July 8.

On This Day: July 8.

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...

On This Day: July 9.

On This Day: July 9.

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 Author - Emily...

On This Day: June (5 Titles)

On This Day: June (5 Titles)

Hear the stories that propelled us to the present day through insights that lend perspective to our world with a nod to our own humanity. Britannica media editor Kurt Heintz, together with Emily Goldstein and Meg Matthias, is on a mission to spotlight...

On This Day: June 10.

On This Day: June 10.

On This Day: June 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of boxer Jack Johnson; sinking of the Gaspee; birth of Judy Garland; death of Marcus Garvey Author - Emily Goldstein. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: June 11.

On This Day: June 11.

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 Author -...

On This Day: June 12.

On This Day: June 12.

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 Author - Emily...

On This Day: June 9.

On This Day: June 9.

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 Author - Emily...