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HistoryPod Live: Historical significance. How are events chosen for the daily podcast?

10th July 2017
Tagged as: Calendar, historiography, Islam, Roman Empire, Romania

This extended edition of HistoryPod attempts to answer the most common question from listeners: how and why are certain events featured (or not) in the daily podcast?

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HistoryPod Live: Historical significance. How are events chosen for the daily podcast?

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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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