HistoryPod
The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning
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9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name
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7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intended to test his holiness
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6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
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5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America
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4th April 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee
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3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford
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2nd April 1977: Red Rum wins an unprecedented third Grand National horse race
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1st April 1924: Adolf Hitler found guilty of treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch and sentenced to five years in jail
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31st March 1905: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany lands in Morocco where his speech prompts the First Moroccan Crisis
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30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris
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29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam
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28th March 1871: The Paris Commune proclaimed, and Council met for the first time
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27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines
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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store
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25th March 1957: Treaty of Rome signed, which laid the foundations for the European Economic Community
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24th March 1989: Start of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
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23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII
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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris
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21st March 1556: Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, executed for heresy
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20th March 1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany formally accepts Otto von Bismarck’s resignation
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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan releases his eponymous debut album
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18th March 1314: Execution of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
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17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York
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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom
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15th March 44 BCE: Roman dictator Julius Caesar stabbed to death near the Theatre of Pompey in Rome
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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement
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12th March 1930: Mohandas Gandhi began the 240-mile Salt March to the coastal village of Dandi
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11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas
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10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble
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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free
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8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters production, also known as the Transporter or Bus
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7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler
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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case
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5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri
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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII
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3rd March 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed between Russia and the Central Powers
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2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine
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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park
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28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas
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27th February 1933: Reichstag building in Berlin set on fire in an arson attack
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26th February 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba and sails to the French mainland
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25th February 1956: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivers his ‘secret speech’ announcing the start of de-Stalinization
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24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act
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