On this Day

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 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, overthrow of French King Louis XVI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court. Author...

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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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....

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. 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...