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Same Day, Different Century
By Zach IpsenHistory
Same Day, Different Century episodes
- The Death of Ulysses S. Grant
On July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died at a mountain cottage in New York, shortly after finishing the memoirs he wrote to keep his family out of poverty. He had won the Civil War and served two terms as president. Then a fraudulent brokerage firm took his fortune and throat cancer took his voice. Working in pencil against the clock, the general who once demanded unconditional surrender produced one of the finest books ever written by a soldier.
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11 min - The Arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer
On July 22, 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee after a man he had handcuffed escaped his apartment and flagged down two patrol officers. Tracy Edwards led police back to Apartment 213, where a knife under the bed and a drawer of photographs finally ended years of killing. But the harder story is what came before: a fourteen-year-old boy returned to Dahmer's door by police months earlier, and a neighbor who called again and again. A case about who gets believed, and who does not.
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9 min - Ernest Hemingway Is Born
On July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Nineteen years later he was bleeding in an Italian trench, a Red Cross volunteer with legs full of shrapnel and a lifetime of themes already forming. From a Kansas City newsroom style sheet to the cafes of Paris, this is the story of the man who stripped English prose to the bone and taught a century of writers to trust what goes unsaid.
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11 min - Viking 1 Lands on Mars
On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to land safely on Mars and operate, seven years to the day after Apollo 11 reached the Moon. The lander carried a compact biology laboratory built to answer one question: was there life in the Martian soil? Its experiments returned results that scientists still argue over today.
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11 min - The Sinking of the Mary Rose
On July 19, 1545, Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose heeled over and sank in the Solent, less than two miles from where the king stood watching. She had served for thirty-four years. She went down in minutes, taking most of her crew of four hundred to five hundred men with her. Historians still argue over why. What is certain is that the mud that swallowed her also preserved her, and four centuries later she surfaced again, carrying the fullest picture we have of Tudor life at sea.
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10 min - The Great Fire of Rome, 64 AD
On July 18, 64 AD, fire broke out in the shops at the end of the Circus Maximus and began consuming the largest city in the Roman Empire. It burned for six days. When it was finally stopped, only four of Rome’s fourteen districts remained intact. The emperor Nero was thirty-five miles away when it started, but a rumor took hold that he had ordered it, and what he did next only deepened the suspicion.
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11 min - The Spanish Civil War Begins
On July 17, 1936, Spanish army officers in Morocco launched a coup against the Republic, seizing the barracks and streets of a garrison town hours ahead of schedule. The generals expected a few sharp days and then power. Instead, the rising failed in Madrid and Barcelona, split the country in two, and turned a coup into a three year war that drew in Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.
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12 min - John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Last Flight
On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. took off from New Jersey after sunset, bound for a family wedding at Hyannis Port, with his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren aboard. He never arrived. The son of a president had trained seriously and flown the route before, but he had never finished his instrument rating, and the last thirty miles of his route crossed open, unlit water. This episode traces the flight, the search, and why aviators still study the night the horizon vanished.
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10 min - Napoleon's Last Surrender
On July 15, 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte boarded a British warship off the coast of France and placed himself in the hands of his enemies. Twenty-seven days after Waterloo, the emperor who had ruled most of Europe was a fugitive with no route left to the open ocean. He came, he wrote, like Themistocles, seeking the protection of British law. Britain read the gesture very differently. This is the story of the day Napoleon ran out of options, and of the question his surrender left behind: what does a victor owe a defeated enemy who asks for mercy?
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10 min - John Adams Signs the Sedition Act
On July 14, 1798, President John Adams signed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to print false or malicious criticism of the government. America was fighting an undeclared naval war with France, and the fear of foreign influence had turned inward, toward newspaper editors. But the law carried two strange details: it shielded the president and Congress while leaving Vice President Thomas Jefferson exposed, and it was written to expire the day before a new administration could take office.
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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.