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Episode Notes for This Week in History 8/21 1920 It's Christopher Robbins Birthday! 8/22 1864 The International Red Cross is founded 8/23 1989 Pete Rose gets booted from baseball 8/24 2006 Pluto is demoted in Prague 8/25 1835 The Great Moon Hoax is published 8/26 1939 The First Major League baseball game is televised 8/27 1883 Krakatoa explodes!

Episode Notes for This Week in History 8/14 2003 A blackout hits the Northeastern United States 8/15 1969 The Woodstock Music Festival opens in Bethel New York 8/16 2009 Usain Bolt sets a 100 meter dash world record 8/17 1969 The Woodstock Music Festival concludes 8/18 1931 The Yangtze River peaks in China 8/19 1964 The Beatles kick off their first tour in San Francisco 8/20 1945 A 17 year old bec...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 8/7 1782 George Washington creates the purple heart 8/8 1988 The Lights go on at Wrigley 8/9 2010 Jet Blue Flight Attendant quits his job via airplane escape slide 8/10 1945 Japan accepts Potsdam terms and agrees to unconditional surrender 8/11 1984 Reagan jokes about bombing Russia 8/12 1990 The Skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is discovered 8/13 1981 Reagan...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 7/31 1964 Ranger 7 Photographs the Moon 8/1 1943 Operation Tidal Wave 8/2 1945 The Potsdam conference concludes 8/3 1958 The Nautilus submarine travels under the North Pole 8/4 1753 George Washington becomes a Master Mason 8/5 1861 Abraham Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax 8/6 1996 Researchers claim Martian life in meteorite

Episode Notes for This Week in History 7/24 1911 American Archeologist encounters Machu Picchu ruins 7/25 1965 Dylan goes electric 7/26 1931 Midwestern crops vs grasshoppers 7/27 1949 The first commercial jet makes a test flight 7/28 1945 A Plane crashes into the Empire State Building 7/29 1996 At age 35, Carl Lewis wins 4th consecutive long jump 7/30 1965 President Johnson signs Medicare into law

Episode Notes for This Week in History 7/17 1955 Disneyland Opens 7/18 1986 Video of Titanic wreckage released 7/19 1943 America Bombs Rome 7/20 1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon 7/21 1899 Earnest Hemingway is born 7/22 2005 March of the Penguins debuts 7/23 1878 Black Bart Strikes again!

Episode Notes 7/10 2018 Thai Soccer team rescued from a cave 7/11 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird is published 7/12 1979 Disco music is dealt a death blow by Chicago White Sox fans 7/13 1978 Henry Ford II fires Lee Iacocca 7/14 1099 Jerusalem captured in the First Crusade 7/15 1978 A 2,800-mile-long walk for Native American justice concludes in Washington DC 7/16 1995 Amazon opens for business

Episode Notes for This Week in History 7/3 1890 Idaho becomes the 43rd state 7/4 1997 The Pathfinder lands on Mars 7/5 1946 The Bikini is introduced 7/6 1994 Forrest Gump opens and wins Tom Hanks a second Oscar 7/7 1930 The building of Hoover Dam begins 7/8 1776 The Liberty Bell tolls to announce the Declaration of Independence 7/9 2000 Venus Williams wins her first Wimbledon

Episode Notes 6/26 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opens 6/27 1939 Famous scene from "Gone with the Wind" is filmed 6/28 1997 Mike Tyson bites ears 6/29 1967 The Rolling Stones fight the law, and the law won! 6/30 1936 Gone with the Wind is published 7/1 1997 Hong Kong is returned to China 7/2 1937 Amelia Earhart disappears

Episode Notes for This Week in History 6/19 2006 Construction on the Global Seed Vault begins 6/20 1969 Buzz Aldren takes holy communion on the moon 6/21 1965 The Folk Rock revolution is on! 6/22 2001 Blockbuster hit movie "The Fast and the Furious" is released 6/23 2013 Wallenda makes the Grand Canyon crossing on a high wire 6/24 1997 U.S. Airforce reports on Roswell 6/25 1956 Last Pack...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 6/12 1920 Big Red sets record at Belmont Stakes 6/13 1966 Miranda rights are established 6/14 1951 Univac, the first commercially produced digital computer is dedicated 6/15 1300 Dante is named Prior of Florence 6/16 1884 American opens its first Roller Coaster 6/17 1876 Native Americans score a victory at the Battle of the Rosebud 6/18 1983 Sally Ride become...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 6/5 1956 Elvis Rocks the Milton Berle Show 6/6 1933 The First Drive in movie theater opens 6/7 1962 Switzerland welcomes the first drive through bank 6/8 1949 George Orwell's 1984 is published 6/9 1954 Have you no sense of decency?,  Senator McCarthy is asked in a hearing 6/10 2002 A Donut thief is arrested 6/11 1982 ET The Extraterrestrial is released

Episode Notes for This Week in History 5/1 1955 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins the final LPGA tournament of her career 5/2 1933 The Loch Ness Monster sighted for the first time, igniting modern legend 5/3 1933 Funk Master James Brown is born 5/4 1959 Ella Fitzgerald becomes the first black woman to win a grammy 5/5 1921 Chanel perfume launches 5/6 1940 Steinbeck wins a Pulitzer for The Grapes of Wra...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 24 1800 The Library of Congress is established 4/25 1974 The NFL adopts new overtime rule 4/26 1977 Studio 54 opens 4/27 1994 South Africa holds first multifacial elections 4/28 1967 Muhammed Ali refuses Army induction 4/29 2004 The World War II Monument opens in DC 4/30 1997 The Big Ben clock stops!

Episode Notes for This Week in History 3/20 1854 The Republican party is founded 3/21 1963 Alcatraz Closes its doors 3/22 1972 The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress 3/23 1998 Titanic wins 11 academy awards 3/24 1989 The Exxon Valdez crashes 3/25 2001 Icelandic Pop Singer Bjork makes a splash 3/26 1804 President Jefferson and a loaf of bread

Episode Notes 3/13 1965 Eric Clapton leaves the Yardbirds 3/14 1879 Albert Einstein Is born 3/15 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team 3/16 1850 The Scarlet letter is published 3/17 461 St. Patrick Dies 3/18 1852 Wells and Fargo starts a shipping and banking company 3/19 1931 Nevada Legalizes Gambling

Episode Notes for Thhis Week in History 3/6 1899 Bayer patents aspirin 3/7 1923 Stopping by woods on a snowy evening is published 3/8 1950 VW Bus, icon of counterculture movement, goes into production 3/9 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut 3/10 1926 First Book of the Month Club selection is published 3/11 1959 A Raisin in the Sun debuts on Broadway 3/12 1894 Coca-Cola sold in glass bottles for t...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 2/27 1922 Supreme Court defends women's voting rights 2/28 1982 The Getty Museum is endowed 3/1 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 3/2 1978 Grave Robbers steal Charlie Chaplin's body 3/3 1887 Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan, her teacher and miracle worker 3/4 2004 Mianne Bagger becomes first transgender athlete to play a pro golf tournament 3...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 2/20 1792 The Postal Service Act regulates the US post Office Department 2/21 1961 Rockefeller imposter and felon is born 2/22 2006 A Gang commits the largest robbery in British history 2/23 1954 Children receive the first polio vaccine 2/24 1988 The Supreme Court defends the right to satirize public figures 2/25 2004 The Passion of the Christ opens in the Un...

Episode Notes for This Week in History f 2/13 1633 Galileo arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy 2/14 1886 The First Trainload of Oranges leaves Los Angeles 2/15 1950 Disney's Cinderella opens in theaters 2/16 1878 Silver Dollars are made legal 2/17 1972 A Beetle overtakes the Model T 2/18 1929 The First Academy Awards Announced 2/19 1847 The Donner Party is Rescued

Episode Notes for This Week in History 2/6 1937 Of Mice and Men is published 2/7 1964 The Beatles arrive in New York 2/8 1943 Americans secure Guadalcanal 2/9 1971 Satchel Paige nominated to the Baseball Hall of Fame 2/10 1972 Ziggy Stardust makes his earthly debut 2/11 2020 The WHO officially names novel coronavirus disease COVID 2/12 1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is performed for the f...

Episode Notes for This Week in History 1/30 1933 The Lone Ranger Debuts on Detroit radio 1/31 1990 The First McDonald's opens in the Soviet Union 2/1 1884 The Oxford Dictionary debuts 2/2 1882 James Joyce is born 2/3 2005 Gonzales becomes the first Hispanic US Attorney General 2/4 2004 Facebook launches 2/5 1919 United Artists is created

Episode Notes 1/23 1957 Toy Company Wham-O produces first Frisbees   1/24 1935 The First Canned Beer goes on Sale   1/25 1905 The World's Largest Diamond is found   1/26 1788 British settlement begins in Australia   1/27 1945 Auschwitz is liberated   1/28 1985 Music stars gather to record "We are the World"   1/29 1936 US Baseball Hall of Fame Elects its first members       Annette Roe

Episode Notes for This Week in History 1/16 1605 Groundbreaking Novel Don Quixote is published 1/17 1994 Paula Jones accuses Bill Clinton of Sexual harassment 1/18 2009 GM Auctions of historic cars 1/19 1809 Edgar Allan Poe is born 1/20 1971 Marvin Gaye's hit single "What's Going On?" is released 1/21 1910 US Immigration Station Angel Island opens in the San Francisco Bay 1/22 2003 Hispa...

Episode Notes for This Week in History f 1/9 2001 Apple Launches Itunes 1/10 2000 AOL Time Warner was Formed 1/11 1935 Amelia Earhart flys from Hawaii to California 1/12 1932 Hattie Wyatt Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate 1/13 1128 The Pope Recognizes Knights Templar 1/14 1943 FDR Becomes the first president to travel by airplane on official business 1/15 1870 The First appe...