Episodes

January 26, 1808. British Officer William Bligh is deposed as Governor of New South Wales, Australia in a coup called the Rum Rebellion.

January 25, 1964. A young entrepreneur founds Blue Ribbon Sports, a company that will one day be better known as Nike.

January 24, 41 CE. The notorious Roman emperor Caligula is assassinated at the hands of his own bodyguards.

January 23, 1849. British physician Elizabeth Blackwell graduates from Geneva Medical College in New York, becoming the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

On today's Saturday Matinee, we focus on the last days of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, as seen through the eyes of their daughter, Cleopatra Selene the Second. Link to The Ancient World: www.ancientworldpodcast.com. Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. See Privacy Policy at https…

January 20, 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for an unprecedented and never to be repeated fourth term as US President.

January 19, 1915. In Norfolk, England, four people are killed by German bombs during the first ever Zeppelin raid of World War One.

January 18, 1788. Britain’s First Fleet begins to arrive in Botany Bay, sparking the British colonization of Australia.

January 17, 1920. Prohibition officially goes into effect in the United States, after the passage of the Volstead Act.

January 16, 1979. Iran’s powerful Shah abandons his throne, and flees his nation, setting the stage for the country’s Islamic Revolution.

On today’s Saturday Matinee, host Lindsay Graham goes mad with envy and prepares a poison apple after hearing “Today In History with The Retrospectors.” Link to Today In History with The Retrospectors: https://theretrospectors.com/ Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. …

January 13, 1968. American singer and songwriter Johnny Cash records his best selling live album in front of an audience of convicts.

January 12, 1956. After years of dead ends, the FBI solves one of the largest heists in US history, arresting the perpetrators of the Great Brink's Robbery just five days before the statute of limitations runs out.

January 11, 1879. The Anglo-Zulu War begins when a British army invades Zululand in modern-day South Africa.

January 10, 1863. After a long campaign by a British lawyer, the world’s first passenger underground railway opens in London.

January 9, 1957. Sir Anthony Eden resigns as Britain’s Prime Minister following the nation’s humiliation in the Suez Crisis.

On today’s Saturday Matinee, a Nazi exhibition of dangerous “degenerate art.” Link to Art of History: https://pod.link/1584348990 Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p…

January 6, 1994. US figure skating champion, Nancy Kerrigan, is assaulted by an accomplice of fellow skater, Tonya Harding, at the US Championships in Detroit.

January 5th, 1836. The legendary frontiersman Davy Crocket arrives in Nacogdoches to fight in the revolution for Texas’ independence from Mexico.

January 4, 1853. After being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom.

January 3, 1911. After three London policemen are killed trying to stop a robbery, their murderers are tracked down to an East London slum where a dramatic and deadly armed siege begins.

January 2, 1981. Britsh police arrest a man named Peter Sutcliffe for a routine traffic violation, but they soon realize that he is a mass murderer known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

December 30, 1941. In a rousing speech to the Canadian Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrates his success in holding off Nazi Germany in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.

December 29, 1890. The United States Army massacres hundreds of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.