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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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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

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

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

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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