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Same Day, Different Century
By Zach IpsenHistory
Same Day, Different Century episodes
- The Murder of Emmett Till
On August 28, 1955, two men abducted fourteen-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle's home in the Mississippi Delta, days after an encounter at a local grocery store. Till, visiting from Chicago for the summer, was beaten and killed, his body pulled from the Tallahatchie River three days later. His mother, Mamie, insisted on an open casket so the world could see what had been done to her son. This episode follows the kidnapping, the trial that acquitted his killers in under an hour, and the ripple effects that helped ignite the civil rights movement.
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12 min - The Eruption of Krakatau
On August 27, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa, in modern day Indonesia's Sunda Strait, tore itself apart in a series of explosions heard thousands of miles away. For three months, the mountain had been building toward this morning, venting ash, shaking windows in Batavia, and drawing a lone Dutch surveyor who mapped its craters and warned no one to land there again. When the final eruption came, it triggered tsunamis over a hundred feet high that erased coastal towns on both sides of the strait.
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10 min - Mother Teresa Is Born
On August 26, 1910, Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, into a Catholic Albanian family. This episode traces her path from a childhood marked by political violence and her father's sudden death, through decades as a quiet Calcutta schoolteacher, to the call that sent her into the slums.
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9 min - The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun began printing six installments describing life on the moon, supposedly observed through a telescope by the astronomer Sir John Herschel. There were no bat-men and no sapphire temples. Reporter Richard Adams Locke had fabricated the entire series, complete with invented scientific journals and a fictional assistant, and readers across the country believed it. The story explores how a penny newspaper and a scientific craze combined to produce one of the most successful hoaxes in American journalism, and why the truth took days to catch up.
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10 min - The Sack of Rome, 410
On August 24, 410, the Visigothic king Alaric and his army entered Rome through the Salarian Gate and sacked the city for three days. It was the first time in roughly eight hundred years that Rome had fallen to a foreign force. Alaric had spent a decade seeking land, grain, and a Roman command before Rome's own government turned him into its enemy. The scholar Jerome, recorded a city stripped of its wealth but not destroyed.
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11 min - Nat Turner's Rebellion Begins
On August 21, 1831 Nat Turner and six other men met beside Cabin Pond in Southampton County, Virginia, and decided to rise. Turner was thirty years old, enslaved, and known for miles as a preacher who believed God had given him signs in the sky. What followed over the next two days was the deadliest slave revolt in American history.
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13 min - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture Premieres in Moscow
On August 20, 1882, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture received its official premiere in Moscow. He had written it on commission, out of loyalty to the man who gave him his career, and told his patron he composed it without any warm and loving feelings. The war it commemorated had ended seventy years earlier, when Napoleon's Grand Army marched into Russia and a fraction of it marched out. Neither the cathedral nor the men who ordered the piece were there to hear it. The overture outlasted all of them, and its composer's opinion of it too.
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13 min - The Salem Witch Trials: Five Hanged on August 19, 1692
On August 19, 1692, five people were hanged as witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Among them was George Burroughs, a Harvard educated minister who climbed the ladder, declared his innocence, and recited the Lord's Prayer without a stumble, something no witch was believed able to do.
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12 min - Genghis Khan Dies
On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died in a camp in northwestern China while his army besieged the Tangut capital. His commanders kept the death secret, held the lines, and accepted the city's surrender in the name of a man already gone. This episode traces the road to that tent: a fatherless boy named Temujin, the alliances that made and betrayed him, and the army he rebuilt so thoroughly that it kept conquering without him.
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13 min - Davy Crockett Is Born
On August 17, 1786 David Crockett was born in a cabin near Limestone Creek, in a corner of the frontier that could not agree on which government it belonged to. He was rented out to a cattle drover at twelve, ran away at thirteen, and killed bears for currency before Tennessee sent him to Congress. There he lost every land bill he wrote and cast the only vote in his delegation against Indian removal. Then came Texas, the Alamo, and a legend that outgrew the man who signed his name David.
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History didn't happen in textbooks, it happened on days just like today. Same Day, Different Century uncovers one remarkable true story from this exact date in history, every weekday.