Thursday, December 31, 2020

This Day in History, December 31

Zeitgeist, Flavius Belisarius, King Henry IV, The British East India Company, Guinness, "Efimeris," Baltimore, Karl Benz, incandescent lighting, New Years Eve, and more, this day in history, December 31. Happy New Year, y'all!

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

This Day in History, December 30

Swami, Southern border, Tojo, Iroquois Theater fire, Bert Parks, Rasputin, USSR, Bo Didley, Sandy Koufax, Skeeter Davis, UAW strike, Marcos and the Philippines, Led Zeppelin, Famous birthdays, and more, this day in history, December 30.

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

This Day in History, December 29

Pundit, Thomas Beckett, American Revolutionary War news, Charles Goodyear, Texas, YMCA, the massacre at Wounded Knee, Jon Voight, WWII news, and Moore, this day in history, December 29.

#history #thisdayinhistory #december29

Monday, December 28, 2020

This Day in History, December 28

Amorphous, Thomas Henderson, Woodrow Wilson, Stan Lee, Nichelle Nichols, Edgar Winter, Halton Arp, and more, this day in history, December 28.


#history #thisdayinhistory #december28


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Sunday, December 27, 2020

This Day in History, December 27

The Hagia Sophia, Johannes Kepler, Freedom of Religion, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Radio City Music Hall, the IMF, the Cave of Swallows, Apollo 8, Spain, an avalanche, an earthquake, and a Soviet invasion, and more, this day in history, December 27. #history #thisdayinhistory #december27

Saturday, December 26, 2020

This Day in History, December 26

This Day in History - Click on over now for the LIVE (8 am Central) or later for the replay! We’ll be talking about: 

Boxing Day, Eulogy, Frederick II, a eulogy for George Washington, first female nurses, radium, The Curse of the Bambino, Alan King, Caroll Spinney, Thanksgiving Day declaration, North Korea, Beatlemania, Kwanzaa, the TU-144 supersonic airliner, the end of the Cold War, a hijacking, earthquakes, tornadoes, and more, this day in history, December 26.


#history #thisdayinhistory #december26

Friday, December 25, 2020

This Day in History, December 25

Merry Christmas! So that I can take a day off, I am re-upoading This Day in History for December 25 that was recorded last year, in 2019. One update is that Wilson Fittipaldi is still alive, and turns 77 in 2020. That said, today we'll talk about... Gaminesque, Santa Maria, Halley’s Comet, Crossing the Delaware, Clara Barton, Helena Rubenstein, Louis Chevrolet, Layne Hall, Conrad Hilton, Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Wilson Fittipaldi, W.C. Fields, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “White Christmas,” the demise of the Soviet Union, notable births & deaths, and more, this day in history, December 25. #history #thisdayinhistory #december25

Thursday, December 24, 2020

This Day in History, December 24

Hyperborean, Roman emperor Galba, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kit Carson, the Treaty of Ghent, Howard Hughes, the Christmas Truce of World War I, Albania, the White House fire of Christmas Eve 1929, the Rendlesham Forest event, and more, this day in history, December 24. #history #thisdayinhistory #december24

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

This Day in History, December 23

Botheration, Giovanni Battista Crespi, George Washington, the Federal Reserve Act, women’s equality, transistors, the first kidney transplant, an earthquake, and more, this day in history, December 23. #history #thisdayinhistory #december23

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

This Day in History, December 22

Vespasian, Diocletian, the Embargo Act, Beethoven, Puccini, Connie Mack, the Dreyfus Affair, the Lincoln Tunnel, WWII news, Communist China, East and West Germany, an earthquake, an asteroid, some plane crashes, and a tsunami, this day in history, December 22. #history #thisdayinhistory #december22

Monday, December 21, 2020

This Day in History, December 21

Solstice, Vespasian, Mayflower Pilgrims, Jack Russell, Benjamin Disraeli, the Navy Medal of Valor, Crossword puzzles, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Frank Zappa, earthquakes and plane crashes, Samuel L. Jackson, Vocational Guidance Counselors, and more, this day in history, December 21. #history #thisdayinhistory #december21

Sunday, December 20, 2020

This Day in History, December 20

Secede, South Carolina, "It's a Wonderful Life," Yuri Geller, Cardiff Wales, Boeing 707, Elvis Presley, Panama, a bank robbery, and more, this day in history, December 20.

#history #thisdayinhistory #december20

Saturday, December 19, 2020

This Day in History, December 19

Westminster Abbey, Poor Richard's Almanack, "An American Crisis," "A Christmas Carol," Ford C. Frick, MArtin Luther King Sr., Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Al Kaline, Apollo 17, Gaia, and more, this day in history, December 19. #history #thisdayinhistory #december19

Friday, December 18, 2020

This Day in History, December 18

Diaspora, the Constitution, “God Save the Tsar,” the Thirteenth Amendment, Joseph Stalin, “The Nutcracker,”the Eighteenth Amendment, an NFL Championship, Epimetheus, an election, plane and train crashes, and more, this day in history, December 18.l


#history #thisdayinhistory #december18

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

This Day in History, December 16

Reconciliation, Vasco da Gama, several earthquakes, Beethoven, the Boston Tea Party, American independence, Escape from Alcatraz, transistors, the Vietnam War, and more, this day in history, December 16.


#history #thisdayinhistory #december16

Sunday, December 13, 2020

This Day in History, December 13

Initial, Pope Sixtus V, Sir Francis Drake, the National Guard, Mar Todd Lincoln, Kristian Birkeland, Larry Doby, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Erskine, NASA's Relay I, Eugene Cernan, and more, this day in history, December 13. #history #thisdayinhistory #december13

Sunday, November 29, 2020

This Day in History, November 30


Louisiana Purchase, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Mark Twain, Barbados, South Yemen, Michael Jackson's "Thriller," ExxonMobil, and more,m this day in history, November 30. #history #thisdayinhistory #november30

This Day in History, November 29


Partition, earthquakes, San Jose, Doppler, Charcot, Louisa May Alcott, Edison's phonograph, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Byrd and the South Pole, Palestine, Eisenhower goes to Korea, Mercury Atlas 5 mission, the Warren Commission, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," Pong, and more, this day in history, November 29. #history #thisdayinhistory #november29

Thursday, November 12, 2020

This Day in History, November 12


Empirical, Captain Robert Scott, Austria, Soviet Union leaders, the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Ellis Island, Violent earthquakes, some notable birthdays, and more, this day in history, November 12. #history #thisdayinhistory #november12

Thursday, January 16, 2020

This Day in History January 14



Shingle, the “Fundamental Orders,” Benedict Arnold, Continental Congress, Albert Schweitzer, John Dodge, FDR, Marilyn Monroe & Joe Dimaggio, George Wallace, USS Enterprise, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gold prices soar, and more, this day in history, January 14.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

January 13 This Day in History



Skelf, Knights Templar, Dr. William Bryden, The Fuller Brush Company, The National Geographic Society, public radio, Robert Stack, Wyatt Earp, Doc Barker, Australian bush fires, James Joyce, United Nations, Ernie Kovacs, Johnny Cash, Blood donations, Michael Jordan, and more, this day in history, January 13.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Jan 12 This Day in History



Gob, Joseph Smith, Jack London, the “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard,” Henry Ford, “Big Four” Nations meet, Amoos & Andy, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Siege of Leningrad, Rush Limbaugh, U.S. vs. Communism, Agent Orange, Jeff Bezos, Vietnam, Dynasty, Malcolm X’s daughter, Human cloning banned, Maurice Gibb, Haitian earthquake, and more, this day in history, January 12.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Jan 11 This Day in History



Scud, rhubarb, Life Insurance, Michigan Territory, Francis Scott Key, Civil War News, Albert Hoffman, The Grand Canyon, Insulin, Carroll Shelby, Charlie Chaplin, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Stalin & Trotsky, Amelia Earhart, Network TV, The Surgeon General’s Warning, The Designated Hitter, Paul Lynde, President Reagan, Miep Gies, and more, this day in history, January 11.

Jan 10 This Day in History



Contraption, Crossing the Rubicon, Franklin James, Florida, Standard Oil, Oil gushers, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, WWI news, WWII news, United Nations, avalanche, Vietnam War, Time Warner, AOL-Time Warner, Tata Nano, and more, this day in history, January 10

Jan 9 This Day in History



Decimate, Columbus, Circus, Common Sense, Connecticut, Daguerreotype, Anson Jones, Civil War news, The end of the open range, Nixon, Cold War, Rocky, Hillside Strangler, iTunes, iPhone, and more, this day in history, January 9

Jan 8 This Day in History



Guesstimate, Galileo, State of the Union, Battle of New Orleans, Democratic Party, $0 debt, The Vote, Crazy Horse, Fourteen Points, Elvis Presley, WWII news, Notable births, Charles de Gaulle, Fidel Castro, Mona Lisa, War on Poverty, UFOs, AT&T, No Child Left Behind, El Chapoo, and more, this day in history, January 8

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Jan 7 This Day in History



Palimony, Catherine of Aragon, Galileo, America’s first bank, hot air ballooning over the English Channel, first U.S. presidential election, Zora Neale Hurston,  Krebs coal mine disaster, Harlem Globetrotters, split personality murders, Kenny Loggins, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Hydrogen Bomb, Marian Anderson, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and more, this day in history, January 7.

Jan 4 This Day in History



Nirvana, Braille, Colt, WWII news, Johnson’s “Great Society,” Nixon’s tapes, GM’s electric car, the Euro, and more, this day in history, January 4.

Jan 3 This Day in History



Sutra, Martin Luther, J.R.R. Tolkien, King Tut, an Italian dictator, March of Dimes, Alaska, Jack Ruby, Aretha Franklin, Manuel Noriega, Mars Exploration Rover “Spirit,” and more, this day in history, January 3.

Jan 2 This Day in History



Mantra, The Tory Act, Georgia, Alice Sanger, “The Open Boat,” Barry Goldwater, Isaac Asimov, Teapot Dome, an early deplatforming, 1937 Bugatti, Notable births & deaths, and more, this day in history, January 2.

Jan 6 This Day in History



Squiggle, Lines of succession, Joan of Arc, Presidential wedding anniversaries, The American frontier, Samuel Morse, New Mexico, Theodore Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, My Lai, Wheel of Fortune, Harding & Kerrigan, Blizzard of 1996, and Moore, this day in history, January 6.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Jan 5 This Day in History



Rurban, Early divorces, Zebulon Pike, Benedict Arnold, Gillette, Dreyfus, Ford, Conscription, German Workers Party, Babe Ruth, First woman governor, Golden Gate Bridge, Calvin Coolidge, Daily Mail, Kamikaze, Fair Deal, Eisenhower Doctrine, Union murders, Space Shuttle, Summer in Antarctica, Pol Pot, and Sonny Bono, this day in history, January 5

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Jan 1 This Day in History



Dharma, Rio de Janiero, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Traveller’s Checks, Amazing Grace, the Grand Union Flag, Ceres, Haiti, Mercy Hospital, Emancipation Proclamation, Fox Theaters, J. Edgar Hoover, New York City, Hank Greenberg, J.D. Salinger, Alcatraz, Costco, Hank Williams, UNIX, the Internet, AT&T, notable births and deaths, and more, this day in history, January 1.

Dec 31 This Day in History



Karma, Baltimore, Civil War, WWII, and Cold War news, Karl Benz, Thomas Edison, General Motors, the “Konkordski,” Heartbreaking plane crashes, the Panama Canal, notable births & deaths, and more, this day in history, December 31.