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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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9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

14th April 1561: Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon terrifies residents

13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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