On This Day: August 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Marilyn Monroe; birth of Neil Armstrong; the US, USSR, and UK sign the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile
On This Day: July 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of figure skater Michelle Kwan; Satchel Paige born; contstruction began on Hoover Dam; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born
On This Day: July 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, was born; 26th Amendment certified; bikini debuts; Isaac Newton's Principia was published; Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon
On This Day: May 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. John Wilkes Booth; Jacques Cousteau; Victoria Woodhull; Halley's Comet; double-agent Robert Hanssen
On This Day: May 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Lewis and Clark expedition; Skylab 1; small pox vaccination; State of Israel; Frank Sinatra; Facebook; George Lucas; BB King; Rita Hayworth
On This Day: June 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Jeannette Rankin; birth of Gene Wilder; Guangxu emperor of China issued his first reform decree initiating the Hundred Days of Reform
On This Day: May 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pope John Paul II is shot; Dr. Joyce Brothers wins The $64K Question; birth of Stevie Wonder, Dennis Rodman, Stephen Colbert, Lena Dunham, and Richie Valens
On This Day: July 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Independence Day; death of presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; birth of Rube Goldberg; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published
On This Day: July 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Althea Gibson is first Black person to win Wimbledon; activist Marsha P. Johnson was found dead; Louis Pasteur performs first rabies vaccination.
On This Day: May 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov; Adolf Eichmann captured; HMS Beagle launched; Bikini Atoll nuclear-weapons tests
On This Day: June 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pulse nightclub shooting; Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison; birth of Anne Frank; the Philipppines declares independence from Spain
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