This Day In History

The Treaty of Paris is drafted on this episode of This Day In History!   On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about the Treaty of Paris and its effect on the American Revolutionary War. Also, Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the official land transfer that finalizes...

Erwin Schrödinger puts a cat in a box on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about Erwin Schrödinger’s cat that is both alive and dead. On this day in 1935, Schrödinger devised a thought experiment that would change the way quantum mechanics is...

Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems were the last people to be executed in Paris on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about the last executions in Paris. On this day in 1972, Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems were put to...

Lee would have been 77 and Hendrix would have been 75 on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about two great legends that were born on this day. On this day in 1940, Lee Jun-fun was born at...

Hosts of Surreal Talk join Tony and Armand on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are joined by Everett and Eric Hicks, hosts of Surreal Talk, to talk about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On this day in 1963, President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas. That is the...

Einstein publishes in Annalen der Physik on this episode of This Day In History!   On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about Einstein’s publication that would eventually lead to the mass-energy equivalence formula. On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein’s Annus mirabilis papers, translated means extraordinary year, were published in an...

24 former Nazi officials are introduced to Lady Justice on this episode of This Day In History!   On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about the start of the Nuremberg Trials at the Palace of Justice. On this day in 1945, 24 Nazi war criminals began...

One of the world’s first serial killers is arrested on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about serial killer H.H. Holmes. On this day in 1894, the Beast of Chicago was arrested in Boston and would be hung two years later for his...

Lysergic acid diethylamide is synthesized on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about the chemical compound C20H25N3O, or LSD, or Acid. On this day in 1938, in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD for the first time,...

Holcomb, Kansas sees the death of the Clutter Family on this episode of This Day In History! On this episode of This Day In History, Tony and Armand are here to tell us about the murders that took place on this day that would inspire Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, In True Blood. Two senseless men murdered...