This Day in History Class

On this day in 1974, American Dave Kunst became the first known person to circumnavigate the globe on foot.

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On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the Dinosaur National Monument to protect one of the world’s richest known fossil beds.

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On this day in 1942, Nazi Germany successfully fired the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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On this day in 1950, Charles Schulz’s beloved “Peanuts” comic strip began its record-setting, 50-year run.

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On this day in 1829, Scotland Yard was founded as the headquarters of Greater London’s Metropolitan Police.

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On this day in 1850, an act of Congress outlawed the practice of flogging within the U.S. Navy.

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On this day in 1937, the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School opened in Albion, New York.

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On this day in 1963, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of Mary Hamilton.

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On this day in 1929, esteemed broadcast journalist Barbara Walters was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?).

Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it. Listen to IN RETROSPECT with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-in-retrospect-with-susie-122206786/

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