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MTIH 390 Super Outbreak, 1974
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MTIH 389 USS Missouri Decommissioned, 1992 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 388 Giuseppe Zangara Executed, 1933 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 387 The First Spacewalk, 1965 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 386 The Battle of Dien Bien Phu Begins, 1954 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 385 The First National Fireside Chat, 1933 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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MTIH 384 The Boston Massacre, 1770 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 383 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Born, 1848 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 382 The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 381 Douglas Bader Born, 1910 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 380 Iwo Jima Invasion, 1945 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH DB Cooper Gets Away, 1971 The story of D.B. Cooper, one of the most infamous hijackers of the 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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MTIH 378 Man O' War Dies, 1947 A short summary of the life of Man O' War, one of greatest horses to every run in a race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH Hiatus See you in November! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 377 F. Scott Fitzgerald Born, 1896 A short history of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, arguably one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 376 Norton the First, 1859 The story of Joshua Norton, the United States' first and only emperor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 375 A Cloudy Day for Basketball, 1972 Tonight, we discuss the basketball game between the Soviet Union and the United States at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 374 V-2s Against London, 1944 We discuss the first V-2 rocket attack against London during the Second World War and the development of the terror weapon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 373 Sound Today and Edsel, 1957 I need to hear from you if you are having audio problems with this show, plus we discuss Ford Motor Company's Edsel, the mother of all bad marketing decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 372 Caligula Born, 12 Today is the birthday of Caligula, the Roman Emperor who is today remembered as a madman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 371 Shays' Rebellion, 1786 Sorry, no transcript for this episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 370 The Chicago Convention, 1968 Today in 1968, the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the convention was to choose a Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States, but it was much more. The four-day gathering became a symbol of the divisions present in American society during the late 1960’s and is today viewed as one of the defining events of that decade. The divisiveness that existed in the United States in 1968 was more pronounced than at any time since the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 369 Raid on Dieppe, 1942 Today in 1942, Allied forces raided the German-held port city of Dieppe located on the northern coast of France. The majority of the soldiers on the Allied side of the battle were Canadians, who were more than ready to contribute to the war effort. The raid became a painful lesson of how not to run an invasion. The spring of 1942 was a dark time for the Allies. The United States had joined the war the previous December, but had yet to send a meaningful number of troops to England, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 368 The Vasa Sinks, 1628 Today in 1628, the Vasa, a Swedish warship, foundered during her maiden voyage off Stockholm. Vasa was more than another cannon-carrying ship---she was the pride of a nation, built on the direct orders of a king who was mired in a war and desperately in need of a world-class navy. Today, she serves as a reminder of Sweden's ocean-going past and as a rare example of early 17th century shipbuilding. King Gustavus Adolphus the Great was from the Royal House of Vasa, a line that had ruled ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 367 HL Hunley Raised, 2000 Today in 2000, the H.L. Hunley was recovered from the bottom of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. She was the first submarine in history to sink a warship and although her trip was one way, she proved the value of small submersibles in an age dominated by ever-larger surface ships. Her story is one of Confederate desperation, determination and ingenuity during America's Civil War. The Hunley was a privately-built sub and, thus, was never commissioned into the Confederate Navy. He ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 366 A Choice Between Evils, 1945 Today in 1945, the first atomic bomb used in wartime was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later, the second such device used in wartime was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. We discussed these bombings early in the history of this podcast, and so I will not repeat the details here. What I'd like to discuss is the ongoing debate over whether or not the use of nuclear weapons against two Japanese cities was justified. The most important aspect of the debate is prob ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 365 Last Mission of PT109 (Part Two), 1943 Because the remnant of the boat the men were holding onto was listing badly and starting to sink, Kennedy decided to swim for a small island three miles to the southeast. Five hours later, all eleven survivors had made it to the island after having spent a total of fifteen hours in the water. Kennedy had given McMahon, who was badly burned, a life-jacket and had towed him all three miles with the strap of the device in his teeth. After finding no food or water on the island, Kennedy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 364 Last Mission of PT-109 (Part One), 1943 Today in 1943, the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 put to sea on her last mission. Before sunrise on August 2nd, she would be sunk and her surviving crew would find themselves in danger from both the elements and Japanese garrisons located on nearby islands. The story of their survival over the next six days and the ultimate fate of her commanding officer ensured that PT boats would earn their place in American naval history. Motor Torpedo Boats, or PT boats, were the smallest warships used ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 363 Jimmy Hoffa Disappears, 1975 Today in 1975, James Riddle Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan restaurant. Thus began the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa, the man who became the face of union labor in the United States for two decades. Today, as many questions remained unanswered with regard to Hoffa's fate as did on this day 32 years ago. Hoffa was born in February, 1913 in Brazil, Indiana, a small farming town in west-central Indiana. He dropped out of school early and became the famil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 362 The Eastland Disaster, 1915 Today in 1915, the S.S. Eastland rolled over in the Chicago River while still tied to a nearby wharf. The disaster was the worst maritime accident to occur in the continental United States during the 20th century, yet very few people are familiar with what happened. What's more, a review of the ship, her construction and her later modifications prove that the accident was completely avoidable. The Eastland was commissioned in 1902 by the Michigan Steamship Company. She was built to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 361 Pee Wee Reese Born, 1918 Harold Henry Reese was born on July 23, 1918 in Ekron, Kentucky. A superb defensive shortstop, a capable hitter, and a student of baseball, Reese used his intelligence as much as his athletic abilities to beat opponents. Reese, however, earned his place in baseball history for far more than his ball-playing talent. Today, he is most remembered as the man whose courage, sense of justice and fair play greatly helped smooth the entry of Jackie Robinson into the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers. Reese' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 360 The Lost Colony, 1587 Today in 1587, 121 English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island, located off the coast of the modern state of North Carolina. Thus began the story of "The Lost Colony", a mystery that remains with us 420 years after the colonists set foot in the New World. British colonies on the North American continent often began as semi-private enterprises wherein the monarch granted an individual or company a charter for the colonization of an area. Such it was with Virginia, a huge area ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 359 Corrigan's Wrong Way Flight, 1938 Today in 1938, Douglas Corrigan arrived in Ireland, having flown there from New York solo in an aircraft that seemed hardly up to the task. The story of his flight and the events that lead up to it lead Corrigan to a life of fame in both the United States and Europe and left him forever remembered as a pioneer in cross-ocean aviation. Douglas Corrigan was born in January, 1907 in Galveston, Texas. He was 18 when he took his first plane ride, a short trip in a First World War-vintage C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 358 District of Columbia Created, 1790 Today in 1790, the Residence Act was signed into law by US President George Washington. The act designated Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the temporary capital of the United States, but it also gave the President the power to create a federal district to serve as the permanent capital. Thus was born Washington, District of Columbia. The location of the new nation's capital was the source of much heated debate in the early days of the United States. The early federal government had me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 357 Medal of Honor Created, 1862 Today in 1862, a Congressional resolution providing for a Medal of Honor was signed into law. It was and remains the highest decoration awarded to military personnel in the service of the United States. In it's most current form, the Medal of Honor is bestowed upon a service member who distinguishes himself or herself "…conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his/her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the Unite ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 356 Zheng He Sets Sail, 1405 Today in 1405, Chinese admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) set sail on his first voyage, the beginning of a series of journeys that would greatly expand his nation's knowledge of the outside world. While many details of these explorations have been lost to time, one thing is almost certain: Zheng He's fleets traveled further and came into contact with more people of foreign birth than any other marine explorer up to that time. Zheng He was born Ma Sanbao in an area of southwest China that was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 355 Hoover Dam Begins, 1930 Today in 1930, money was for appropriated by the United States Congress to build Hoover Dam, a concrete gravity-arch dam which straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. It impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. While not the largest dam in the United States today, it remains a powerful symbol of the ability, ingenuity and work ethic of thousands of men during the worst economic crisis the modern world has ever seen. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 354 Lou Gehrig Day, 1939 Today in 1939, Lou Gehrig delivered his famous closing speech at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of the Bronx. This marked the symbolic end of Gehrig's career, a 17-season run that showed him to not only be an exceptional athlete, but a man of great character as well. Henry Louis Gehrig was born in June, 1903 to poor German immigrants living in the Yorkville area of Manhattan. Despite their poverty, the Gehrig's sent their son to Columbia University. Their hope was th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH Update - Sick Call I'm sick. I have no voice. And the beat goes on! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 353 The Berlin Airlift, 1948 Today in 1948, the Berlin Airlift began. This effort to feed more than two million people in the city of Berlin was unprecedented in the history of aviation, for never before had so many people in one location been supplied by air. The Airlift also showed that nonlethal forms of airpower could directly achieve national objectives. At the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Allies divided Germany into occupation zones: the American, French, and British zones in the west and a Sovi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 352 The Unabomber Strikes Again, 1993 Today in 1993, Dr. David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, was severely injured by a bomb that had been mailed to his office. He lost part of his right hand, sight in one eye, and hearing in one ear. After a six-year long hiatus, the Unabomber was back. The string of bombings, with a history going back nearly 20 years, was the work of one man: Theodore Kaczynski. Kaczynski was born in May, 1942, in Chicago. During his fifth grade year, he was told that he could skip ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 351 The Beetle is Born, 1934 Today in 1934, Ferdinand Porsche signed a contract with the German government to begin development of a “People's Car”, a vehicle that would be affordable, carry two adults and three children and run with limited maintenance for many years. What emerged from this contract was a vehicle known by the German words for “People's Car”, “Volks-Wagen”. Today, we call it the Beetle. The Volkswagen Beetle, officially known as the Type 1, began life during the Nazi regime in Germany ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 350 Juneteenth, 1865 Today in 1865, slavery in the United States and her territories came to an end. Because of this, today is remembered as Juneteenth in parts of the US and in several other nations. You may be under the impression that the institution of slavery was ended in the United States on January 1st, 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In fact, the proclamation did not immediately free a single slave and was very limited in scope. The proclamation declared ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 349 First Woman in Space, 1963 Today in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Her flight not only marked a first for her sex, but also gave the Soviet Union another jump ahead in the early space race to the moon, a competition that would continue for the rest of the decade. Tereshkova was born in March, 1937 in the Central Federal District of the Soviet Union, not far from Moscow. She attended state schools until she was 16, then went to work in a local coat factory. During this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 348 Reagan at Brandenburg Gate, It’s not often that our reviews of history include an actual audio record of the event, but today were are fortunate. 20 years ago today, US President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, a speech that is today one of his most remembered. Communism in Europe and the Soviet Union was on the decline in 1987, but few people outside of government knew it. For more than forty years, Germany had been a divided nation, torn into eastern and western halves as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 347 Operation Opera, 1981 Today in 1981, aircraft of the Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor located near Baghdad. The consequences of the raid, both intended and unintended, helped to shape world opinion of Israel and took Iraq out of the nuclear club for the remainder of the 20th century. Iraq’s nuclear program began in the mid-1960’s, but it remained a mostly academic exercise until the late 1970’s, when the nation’s government sought to purchase an Osiris-class nuclear reactor f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTIH 346 First Drive-In Theater, 1933 Today in 1933, the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. This new business venture brought together two things Americans tend to be passionate about: automobiles and movies. The 70-year long history of the drive-in serves as a sort of model in miniature of the cultural history of the United States from the Great Depression to the dawn of the 21st century. The drive-in theater was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, a man of means whose family owned a chemical comp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
