Episodes

March 30, 1900. Clay tablets inscribed with mysterious writing are discovered at an archaeological dig on Crete, leading to a decades-long international effort to decipher them.

March 29, 1865. Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant launches the Appomattox Campaign, which will ultimately force the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

March 28, 1979. The worst nuclear accident in American history begins when Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant experiences a partial meltdown.

March 27, 1915. After years of evading authorities and causing outbreaks, the woman known as Typhoid Mary is arrested and placed in quarantine.

On Today's Saturday Matinee, the discovery of silver turns Tombstone, Arizona into a Boomtown, brewing tension that leads to the famous gunfight at the OK Corral. Link to 1001 Stories From The Old West: https://podfollow.com/1613213865 Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

March 24, 1942. During World War Two, the US Army begins forcibly moving Japanese Americans into internment camps.

March 23, 1806. After completing the first U.S. overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean, Lewis and Clark begin their return to Missouri.

March 22, 1895. In Paris, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate motion picture technology for the first time.

March 21, 1965. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march against laws repressing the voting rights of African Americans in Alabama.

March 20, 1942. During World War II, US General Douglas MacArthur escapes the Japanese-occupied Philippines, and makes his famous vow to return.

March 17, 1955. The suspension of hockey player Maurice “Rocket” Richard sends the city of Montreal into uproar, sparking the Richard Riot.

March 16th, 1968. After witnessing the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians by American troops, an American helicopter pilot fights to expose a cover-up and reveal the truth of what happened in the village of My Lai.

March 15th, 44 BCE. A plot to assassinate Julius Caesar is carried out by Brutus, Cassius and dozens more Roman senators on the Ides of March.

March 14, 1757. British Admiral John Byng is executed on board HMS Monarch for “failing to do his utmost” in battle.

March 13, 1881. Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of the terror group People’s Will in St Petersburg.

After sitting US vice president Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, his political career was over. Or was it? Today’s Saturday Matinee features an episode from American History Tellers from their series on Aaron Burr—war hero, statesman, killer, and accused traitor.  Link to American History Tellers: http://wondery.fm/AHT_HD Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call in history, revolutionizing human communication.

March 9, 1954. American journalist Edward R. Murrow makes television and journalism history when he takes on Senator Joseph McCarthy.

March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying hundreds of passengers and crew, loses contact with air traffic control, veers off course and mysteriously disappears, prompting the most expensive search in aviation history.

March 7, 1850. US Senator Daniel Webster delivers a famous speech endorsing the 1850 Compromise to calm the nation’s growing conflict over slavery.

March 6, 1857. In the landmark case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the US Supreme Court rules that African Americans, free or enslaved, are not entitled to citizenship.

On today’s Saturday Matinee: some of the most shocking incestuous relationships and tragically inbred individuals in royal history. King Tut, Queen Juana the Mad of Castile, King Charles II of Spain, Queen Victoria and more. Link to History Tea Time: https://podfollow.com/1619978406 Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

March 3, 1910. John D. Rockefeller commits to donating the bulk of his fortune to charity, leading to the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation and turning the oil tycoon into one of the biggest philanthropists in American history.

March 2, 1882. At a train station in Windsor, England, Queen Victoria narrowly escapes the eighth and final attempt on her life.