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HistoryPod Extra: Debunking the origin of ‘Black Friday’

23rd November 2017
Tagged as: Business, Commerce, Economy, Holiday, Myth, Shopping, Slavery, Traffic, USA

Every year on the day after the American holiday of Thanksgiving, millions of shoppers head to the stores to take advantage of cut-price deals offered by retailers.

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HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

28th June 2015
Tagged as: Assassination, Austria-Hungary, Bosnia, First World War, Myth, Serbia

Did Gavrilo Princip really chance upon Archduke Franz Ferdinand outside a sandwich shop?

Tag: Myth

HistoryPod Extra: Debunking the origin of ‘Black Friday’

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

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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

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

2nd December 1805: The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée defeat Russia and Austria

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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