Meg Matthias

On This Day: August 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Jackson Pollock, last game of the 1994 Major League Baseball season before players' labor strike, and Watts Rebellion. Author - Meg Matthias....

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. Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator -...

On This Day: August 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Julia Child; Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlán winning Mexico for the crown of Spain; birth of Alfred Hitchcock. Author - Meg Matthias....

On This Day: August 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Earvin "Magic" Johnson; construction of the Cologne Cathedral completed; Michael Jackson takes control of Beatles publishing rights. Author -...

On this Day: August 24. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum; Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet; the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day....

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 Author - Meg...

On This Day: August 26. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Amelia Boynton Robinson; battle failure of Joan of Arc; Dorothy Thompson expelled from Germany by Hitler; victim in "Preppy Murder" trial found...

On This Day: August 27. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Titian; baptism of Mother Teresa; birth of serial killer Ed Gein Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

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 Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published...

On This Day: July 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Murder of Jean-Paul Marat; Live Aid benefit concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia; iconic Hollywood sign dedicated Author - Meg Matthias....

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 Author - Meg...

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...

On This Day: July 16. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of activist Ida B. Wells; first atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico; birth of dancer and actress Ginger Rogers. Author - Meg Matthias....

On This Day: July 17. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Opening of Disneyland; execution of Russian Nicholas II and his family; crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: June 27. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Yen adopted; Joseph Smith murdered; color tv demonstrated; birthday of Helen Keller; death of Jack Lemmon Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: September 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Arnold Palmer, Steffi Graff completes tennis's Grand Slam, closing of Cats on Broadway after a record 7,485 shows Author - Meg Matthias....

On This Day: September 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Elizbeth I; murder of Tupac Shakur; Muslim army of Saladin attacked the Crusaders of Richard the Lionheart at the Battle of Arsuf Author - Meg...

On This Day: September 8. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Ruby Bridges, birth of Bernie Sanders, birth of Peter Sellers, premiere of Star Trek TV show. Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz....

On This Day: September 9. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Mao Zedong; birth of Adam Sandler; death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Author - Meg Matthias. Narrator - Kurt Heintz. Published Date -...