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The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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The match went all the way to the 15th round before Frazier was declared the winner by unanimous ...By Scott Allsop
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The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless ...By Scott Allsop
On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical ...By Scott Allsop
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5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic world results in the Safarnama
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the ...By Scott Allsop
On the 4th March 1789, the United States constitution went into effect when the first US Congress ...By Scott Allsop
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3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time
When the two-day sale ended on 3 March, 429 slaves had been ...By Scott Allsop
On the 2nd March 1965 the United States military, alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, began Operation Rolling Thunder as part of the Vietnam ...By Scott Allsop
On the 1st March 1692, the Salem witch trials began when Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, ...By Scott Allsop
On the 28th February 1525 Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, was executed on the orders of the Spanish conquistador Hernán ...By Scott Allsop
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27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee
Approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 71 ...By Scott Allsop
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26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording
The resulting record was released in May, and went on to sell hundreds of thousands of ...By Scott Allsop
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After intense debate Senators voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels as the first African-American in the United States ...By Scott Allsop
On the 24th February 1848, amidst the revolutions that were beginning to sweep across the continent, King Louis Philippe of France abdicated the ...By Scott Allsop
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23rd February 1836: The Siege of the Alamo begins, lasting for thirteen days before the final battle
Having received few reinforcements by the time the Mexicans attacked on 6 March, the Alamo’s defenders suffered a decisive defeat that is believed to have killed every soldier in the ...By Scott Allsop
On the 22nd February 1943, the first three members of the White Rose resistance group were put on trial and executed by guillotine in ...By Scott Allsop
The 555-foot tall Washington Monument was dedicated at a ceremony featuring President Chester Arthur alongside fellow politicians, engineers and ...By Scott Allsop
On the 20th February 1959, Jimi Hendrix played his first ever live concert – and got fired from the band after the first ...By Scott Allsop
On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the first ...By Scott Allsop
On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie - became the first cow to fly in an ...By Scott Allsop
H. L. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship when it attacked the Union Navy warship USS ...By Scott Allsop
On the 16th February 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh ...By Scott Allsop
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15th February 1946: ENIAC, the world’s first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, formally dedicated
ENIAC was soon put to use running calculations to help build a hydrogen bomb, and continued to operate until ...By Scott Allsop
On the 14th February 1929, seven men with connections to Chicago’s North Side Gang were gunned down in the Saint Valentine’s Day ...By Scott Allsop
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13th February 1981: The sewers of Louisville, Kentucky, explode after industrial waste makes its way into the tunnels
The explosion wiped out services for thousands of residents, while the stench from the open sewers was ...By Scott Allsop
On the 12th February 1429, the curiously-named Battle of the Herrings was fought between French and English forces near the village of Rouvray in ...By Scott Allsop
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ...By Scott Allsop
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Powers had been sentenced to 10 years’ confinement in the USSR but, amidst concerns that he might reveal any remaining secrets to the Soviet authorities, the U.S. government agreed to exchange Powers and imprisoned student Frederic Pryor in return for Soviet Colonel Rudolf ...By Scott Allsop
Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan, the Director of Physical Education at the YMCA in Holyoke, ...By Scott Allsop
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8th February 1910: The Boy Scouts of America organization incorporated by William D. Boyce in Washington D.C.
Although the organization’s numbers have fallen in recent years, it still has an estimated 2.2 million ...By Scott Allsop
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the ...By Scott Allsop
On the 6th February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport while carrying the Manchester United football team, supporters and ...By Scott Allsop
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An American Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was lost off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia following an in-air ...By Scott Allsop
Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ...By Scott Allsop
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Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a ...By Scott Allsop
On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in ...By Scott Allsop
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department ...By Scott Allsop
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It was sent to the states for ratification the next day, a process that was concluded on 6 December after the necessary three-quarters of states approved ...By Scott Allsop
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30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President
Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence was found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ and was committed to an ...By Scott Allsop
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The phrase 'axis of evil' soon became a hallmark of Bush’s foreign ...By Scott Allsop
Charles VI of France danced in the Bal des Ardents in which four people died after their costumes caught ...By Scott Allsop
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of ...By Scott Allsop
Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant ...By Scott Allsop
At 3.51pm on the afternoon of the 25th January 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New Jersey after completing a 72 day, 24,899-mile journey around the ...By Scott Allsop
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23rd January 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United ...By Scott Allsop
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Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an ...By Scott Allsop
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Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August ...By Scott Allsop
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November ...By Scott Allsop
The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are ...By Scott Allsop
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World ...By Scott Allsop
