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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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11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

22nd December 1894: Alfred Dreyfus found guilty of treason in France

7th April 1498: Savonarola meets to take part in a trial by fire

6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place

5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England

4th April 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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

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