On This Day Podcast

On This Day Podcast episodes

April 20, 2016 April 20th
Edgar Allen Poe and the first detective story, KAL flight 902 shot down, and Danica Patrick wins IndyCar...all On This Day!
9 min
April 19, 2016 April 19th
Treaty Of London, the first free fall parachute jump, Waco & Oklahoma City, and Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III marry...all On This Day!
13 min
April 18, 2016 April 18th
Paul Revere's Ride (and others), BBC reports no news, The Doolittle Raid, and the longest pro baseball game in baseball history...all On This Day!
13 min
April 17, 2016 April 17th
Space, Space and more Space! A 19th Century UFO Crash, George Lucas begins writing his space opera and an Earth-size planet in a habitable zone...all On This Day!
10 min
April 16, 2016 April 16th
World Voice Day, Walter Cronkite, Giant Pandas from China, and Madame Tussaud...all On This Day!
11 min
April 15, 2016 April 15th
Janet Cooke/The Washington Post & Jimmy's World, In Living Color premieres, and the Boston Marathon bombing...all On This Day.
10 min
April 14, 2016 April 14th
Peter Capaldi, Titanic strikes an iceberg, Huge Hailstones, and Abraham Lincoln assassinated...all On This Day!
15 min
April 13, 2016 April 13th
Thomas Jefferson, MKULTRA, and Apollo 13...all On This Day!
12 min
April 12, 2016 April 12th
Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth, Clinton in contempt, and FDR's last day...all On This Day.
13 min
April 11, 2016 April 11th
The Hainan Island Incident and the Caesar of Circuses James Bailey...all On This Day!
11 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.