HistoryPod

386 Episodes

1. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

   Published: 12/6/2024
2. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

   Published: 12/5/2024
3. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

   Published: 12/4/2024
4. 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter

   Published: 12/3/2024
5. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

   Published: 12/2/2024
6. 1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

   Published: 12/1/2024
7. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

   Published: 11/30/2024
8. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

   Published: 11/29/2024
9. 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

   Published: 11/28/2024
10. 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City

    Published: 11/27/2024
11. 26th November 1805: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opens in North Wales

    Published: 11/26/2024
12. 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opens in London, later to become the longest-running play in the world

    Published: 11/25/2024
13. 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

    Published: 11/24/2024
14. 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

    Published: 11/23/2024
15. 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

    Published: 11/22/2024
16. 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

    Published: 11/21/2024
17. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

    Published: 11/20/2024
18. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

    Published: 11/19/2024
19. 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States

    Published: 11/18/2024
20. 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston

    Published: 11/17/2024