This Day in History Class

On this day in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther KIng, Jr. gave his Beyond Vietnam speech, denouncing the war in Vietnam. 

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On this day in 1860, the Pony Express mail service was founded. 

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On this day in 1979, an accidental anthrax leak in a microbiology facility in Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union caused dozens of people to fall ill. The Soviet Union would deny a leak happened until years later.

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On this day in 1960, the first TV picture from space was taken by the TIROS-1 weather satellite. 

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It's the last day of women's history month, and it's our last special Sunday episode celebrating women's contributions to society. Today, we welcome Professor Nora Gilbert, who speaks with me about the Hays Motion Picture Production Code censorship wasn't all bad for women's expression and portrayals in film. You can find Nora's book, "Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship" here:

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22235 .  

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Crawford Long, a doctor in Georgia, became the first to use inhaled ether anesthesia in surgery on this day in 1842.

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On this day in 1857, a 29-year-old sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked two British officers, which set off more than a year long rebellion.

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On this day in 1949, British astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the term "big bang."

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On this day in 1915, domestic cook Mary Mallon was quarantined for the second, and final, time on North Brother Island for being a typhoid carrier. 

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On this day in 1812, a headline in the Boston Gazette read "The Gerry-mander", accompanied by a satirical illustration of the district that Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry lived in.

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