An 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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2023-03-30 |
30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and first appeared in a story called ‘The Case of the Chemical Syndicate’ along with Commissioner ... |
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2023-03-26 | The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 ... |
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2023-03-24 | The concertos may have never even been performed because Christian Ludwig didn’t have good enough musicians to play the complex ... |
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2023-03-22 | Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and maid-servant to propose a plan to smuggle him out by... |
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2023-03-19 |
19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s Folly’ from record ... |
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2023-03-16 | Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ... |
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2023-03-14 |
14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ... |
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2023-03-10 | It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with ... |
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2023-03-06 | While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed an element should exist, he was able to calculate the missing element’s atomic mass and ... |
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2023-03-04 | The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many of the members didn’t arrive in time for the scheduled start ... |
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