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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases the album Thriller

30th November 2020
Tagged as: America, Culture, International, Music, Recording, USA

On the 30^th November 1982, Michael Jackson released the album Thriller, which went on to become the best-selling album of all time.

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11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

11th July 2017
Tagged as: Anniversary, Art, Buxton, Comedy, Culture, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Festival, International, Music, Scotland

HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.

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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases the album Thriller

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918

16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’

11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot breaks out in Boston, MA

10th June 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson and Robert Smith

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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