This Happened Today (in History) Podcast

1972 Launch of Apollo 16https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/overview/ 1953 Royal yacht Brittaniahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2846000/2846801.stm 2003 Michael Jordan’s last NBA gamehttps://outsider.com/sports/on-this-day-michael-jordan-last-game-played-18-years-ago/Support the show

1942 siege of Maltahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff4_siege_malta.shtml 1927 Mississippi River floodinghttps://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mississippi-river-flood-1927/ 1947 Jackie Robinsonhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackie-robinson-breaks-color-barrier Support the show

1865 President Lincoln assassinationhttps://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/assassination-of-president-abraham-lincoln/ 1956 Videotape recorder releasedhttps://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/rotary-head-delivers-high-quality-video/ 2014 Netherlands Glow in the Dark Roadshttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27021291 Support the show

1976 US $2 billhttps://www.silverrecyclers.com/blog/1976-2-dollar-bill.aspx 1943 Thomas Jefferson Memorialhttps://www.nps.gov/articles/jeffersondedication.htm 1931 Chicago Tunnel Fireshttps://www.fsi.illinois.edu/content/library/IFLODD/search/firefighter_detail.cfm?ff_id=341 Support the show

1961 Yuri Gagarin Becomes First Man in Spacehttps://cosmo.org/blog/view/april-12-in-space-history 1981 First Space Shuttle Columbia Launchedhttps://cosmo.org/blog/view/april-12-in-space-history 1861: The Confederate States attack Fort Sumter on This Day, 1861 which starts the Civil War.https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-sumter Support the show

1957 Singapore gains self rule from the Britishhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/newsid_2828000/2828903.stm 1965 The Palm Sunday Tornadoes strike Indiana and the surrounding stateshttps://www.weather.gov/ind/palmsuntor 1970 NASA’s Apollo 13https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apollo-13-mission Support the show

1925 "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald, is publishedhttps://www.biblio.com/the-great-gatsby-by-fitzgerald-f-scott/work/246 1912 The Titanic Sets sailhttps://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/apr/11/archive-1912-titanic-sets-sail 1971 US table tennis team begins a week long visit to the People's Republic of China ( Ping Pong Diplomacy )https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-table-tennis-team-visits-communist-china Support the show

1865 Robert E. Lee surrendershttps://constitutioncenter.org/blog/lee-surrenders-at-appomattox#:~:text=On%20this%20day%2C%20Confederate%20General,War%20on%20April%209%2C%201865 1942 The Japanese forced 75,000 captured American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Death March.https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march 1959 America's First Astronauts Introducedhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-astronauts-introduced Support the show

1904 Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Squarehttps://untappedcities.com/2015/04/08/today-in-nyc-history-in-1904-longacre-square-renamed-times-square/ 1935 - U.S.A. The Emergency Relief Appropriation Acthttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-signs-emergency-relief-appropriation-act 1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home runhttps://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/inside-pitch/henry-aaron-hits-home-run-number-715 Support the show

1933 On April 7th 1933 beer goes on sale again in 19 of the 48 states and the District of Columbia .https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/150-years/sd-me-150-years-april-7-htmlstory.html 1940 North America annular solar eclipsehttps://www.beingintheshadow.com/2013/05/07/annular-versus-total-solar-eclipse/ 2011 - United Kingdom British Man Sails Across Atlantic on Rafthttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-12994695 Support the show

1896 Modern Olympics Games Rebornhttps://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/athens-1896 1909 first men to reach the north polehttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearys-expedition-reaches-north-pole 1917 America enters WW1https://www.dla.mil/AboutDLA/News/NewsArticleView/Article/1162583/logistics-and-american-entry-into-the-great-war/ Support the show

1933 United States Executive Order 6102https://river.com/learn/terms/e/executive-order-6102/ 1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. makes its prime-time TV debuthttps://www.tvobscurities.com/2017/04/30th-anniversary-of-fox-prime-time/ 2010 Explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, Raleigh County, West Virginiahttps://www.wvpublic.org/radio/2017-04-05/april-5-2010-explosions-rock-the-upper-big-branch-mine Support the show

1906 Mount Vesuvius eruptshttp://www.naplesldm.com/eruptions.php 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is establishedhttps://nato.usmission.gov/about-nato/ 1973 New York's World Trade Center Completedhttps://911memorial.org/learn/resources/world-trade-center-history Support the show

1860 Pony Express Service Startshttps://nationalponyexpress.org/historic-pony-express-trail/1860-1861-history/ The Super outbreak of April 3-4, 1974https://www.weather.gov/iln/19740403 2010 Apple Releases Ipadhttps://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/03/looking-back-at-10-years-of-the-ipad-apples-revolutionary-tablet Support the show

Battle of Copenhagenhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Copenhagen-1801 Windfall profits taxhttps://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1605 Falklands Warhttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-short-history-of-the-falklands-war Support the show

R.A.F founded - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/raf-founded Aleutian Islands Tsunami - https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/tsunami-historical-series-aleutian-islands-1946/ Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970 - https://www.byrdcenter.org/blog/the-public-health-cigarette-smoking-act-of-1970 Support the show

Eiffel Tower - https://www.vox.com/2015/3/31/8314115/when-the-eiffel-tower-opened-to-the-public Univac Computer - https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html Newfoundland - Labrador - http://canadahistoryproject.ca/1949/index.htmlSupport the show

President Reagan assassination attempt - https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/president-reagan-shot-march-30-1981-236656 US Purchases Alaska - https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/alaska-purchase The Queensboro Bridge - https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2013/06/when-the-city-celebrated-the-queensboro-bridge/Support the show

Food rationing during WW2 - https://www.history.com/news/food-rationing-in-wartime-america Vietnam War - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam The Mad Bomber - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-mad-bomber-strikes-in-new-yorkSupport the show

Three Mile ISland - https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html Dwight D. Eisenhower - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower/ Istanbul not Constantinople - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar28/istanbul-not-constantinople/Support the show