On This Day Podcast

On This Day Podcast episodes

November 08, 2016 November 8th
World Urbanism Day, Milton Bradley, and Asteroid 2005 YU55 nearly strikes Earth!…On This Day.
8 min
November 07, 2016 November 7th
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...On This Day!
9 min
November 06, 2016 November 6th
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, Abraham Lincoln elected POTUS, and Meet The Press...On This Day.
6 min
November 05, 2016 November 5th
Guy Fawkes Night & the Gunpowder Plot, and the disappearance of Robert Maxwell...On This Day.
10 min
November 04, 2016 November 4th
Iranian students takeover the US Embassy in Tehran - the beginning of the Iranian Hostage Crisis...On This Day.
9 min
November 03, 2016 November 3rd
Godzilla!
6 min
November 02, 2016 November 2nd
All Souls’ Day, Truman Defeats Dewey (despite what the Chicago Tribune says), and Charles Van Doren admits the quiz show Twenty One was rigged…On This Day!
10 min
November 01, 2016 November 1st
All Saints Day, Day of the Innocents, the Library of Congress, and Lyle Lovett...On This Day!
9 min
October 31, 2016 October 31st
Halloween, Harry Houdini and the Houdini Annual Seance…On This Day!
9 min
October 30, 2016 October 30th
Mischief Night aka Devil's Night, Beggars Night, Gate Night, Cabbage Night, and The War Of The Worlds radio hoax...On This Day!
10 min

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A daily time capsule of stories of the significant, intriguing or just plain forgotten events of history that all occurred on this day.