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15th May 1928: Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear in their first cartoon to be shown to a cinema audience

  • 15th May 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Animation, Cartoon, Cinema, Culture, Disney, Entertainment, Mickey Mouse, Theatre, United States, USA

Mickey Mouse’s first animated appearance was in a silent short called Plane Crazy, but the cartoon failed to secure a distributor until a soundtrack was added a year later.

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15th May 1928: Mickey Mouse’s first cartoon appearance

  • 15th May 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Animation, Cartoon, Culture, Entertainment, Film, USA

On 15th May 1928, the first animated cartoon to feature Mickey and Minnie Mouse was shown to a theatre audience.

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9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

  • 9th December 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Comic, Culture, Television, United States, USA

A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.

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19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show

  • 19th April 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Cartoon, Comedy, Culture, Television, United States, USA

An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in 1989.

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30th March 1939: Batman’s debut in Detective Comics #27

  • 30th March 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Comic, Culture, USA
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/03-30-Batman-makes-his-first-appearance-in-Detective-Comics-27.mp3

On the 30th March 1939, Batman made his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went on sale.

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19th December 1918: Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not!’ published for the first time in the New York Globe

  • 19th December 2020
  • Tagged as: America, Art, Cartoon, Culture, New York, Sport, United States, USA
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/12-19-Ripleys-Believe-It-or-Not-debuts-in-The-New-York-Globe.mp3

It has since been adapted into numerous formats and is still printed in more than 40 countries.

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7th September 1813: According to tradition, the United States gained its nickname, ‘Uncle Sam’

  • 7th September 2020
  • Tagged as: America, Cartoon, Government, Politics, United States, War of 1812
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/09-07-The-United-States-gained-the-nickname-Uncle-Sam.mp3

The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper article.

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27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare

  • 27th July 2020
  • Tagged as: America, Animation, Bugs Bunny, Cartoon, Culture, Film, Second World War, USA
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/07-27-Bugs-Bunny-makes-his-cartoon-debut.mp3

Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild Hare.

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9th December 1965: Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast

  • 9th December 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Broadcast, Cartoon, Christmas, Comic, Culture, Television, Tradition, USA

On the 9th December 1965, American television network CBS first broadcast the animated cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

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30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

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29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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