This Day in History Class

Today, Anney Reese from the podcasts Stuff Mom Never Told You and Savor joins me to talk about the 1921 Women's Olympiad. / On this day in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.

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On this day in 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown packed himself up in a box and was shipped to Pennsylvania, a free state. / On this day in 1942, historian and activist Walter Rodney was born.

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On this day in 1916, Chinese emperor Yuan Shikai abdicated the throne and announced he would resume his presidency. / Anney and Samantha from the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You stop by the show to talk about religious rebel Anne Hutchinson, who was excommunicated on this day in 1638. Find them on Twitter @MomStuffPodcast, and Facebook and Instagram @StuffMomNeverToldYou.

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On this day in 1963, the maximum-security prison Alcatraz closed. / On this day in 1983, students in Arrabah in West Bank began getting symptoms of an unidentified illness.

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On this day in 1928, Fred Rogers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" fame was born. / On this day in 1924, the Virginia Sterilization Act, allowing the sterilization of people in state institutions, was approved.

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On this day in 1935, a petty theft in a S.H. Kress store and rumors of a Black Puerto Rican boy's death led to an all-out riot in Harlem. / On this day in 1882, the cornerstone of the Sagrada Família was laid.

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On this day in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into the Gardner Museum in Boston and stole millions of dollars worth of art that was never recovered. / On this day in 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed the first spacewalk.

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Labor and civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin was born on this day in 1912. / On this day in 1968, the chief of the ecology and epidemiology branch of Dugway Proving Ground got a call saying thousands of sheep were found dead in the Skull Valley area of Utah.

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On this day in 1968, hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. / On this day in 1792, Gustav III of Sweden was shot by a conspirator.

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On this day in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was assassinated. / On this day in 1978, the last of significant unit of Somali troops withdrew from Ogaden.

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