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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 www.mrallsophistory.com

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17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end...

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2026/03/17

A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end ...

16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US...

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2026/03/16

Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...

15th March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the...

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2026/03/15

The abdication of Nicholas II removed a deeply entrenched autocracy, but the Provisional Government that assumed power struggled to assert control and, within months, its authority was challenged by the Bolsheviks, leading to the October ...

14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of...

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2026/03/14

What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ...

13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia...

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2026/03/13

Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his ...

12th March 1933: The first “fireside chat” delivered...

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2026/03/12

Recognising that the broadcast had helped bridge the gap between government action and public understanding, fireside chats became a defining feature of Roosevelt’s leadership and over the next twelve years he would deliver a total of thirty broadcasts on subjects ranging from economic recovery to ...

11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant,...

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2026/03/11

The Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper, was published in ...

10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the...

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2026/03/10

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with ...

9th March 1945: USAF begin Operation Meetinghouse,...

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2026/03/09

Approximately 300 B-52 bombers dropped thousands of tons of incendiaries over the eastern districts of Tokyo, causing firestorms that overwhelmed firefighting efforts and killed around 100,000 people, with many more ...

8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters...

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2026/03/08

The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production ...

7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message...

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2026/03/07

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless ...

6th March 1820: The Missouri Compromise passed by the...

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2026/03/06

Missouri was admitted as a slave state while Maine, previously part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a free state to preserve the numerical balance in the Senate. In addition, Congress established a geographical boundary in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory that meant slavery was prohibited north of latitude ...

5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year...

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2026/03/05

The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the ...

4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time,...

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2026/03/04

The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many of the members didn’t arrive in time for the scheduled start ...

3rd March 1878: Treaty of San Stefano lays the...

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2026/03/03

The Treaty of San Stefano created a large, autonomous Principality of Bulgaria, stretching from the Danube to the Aegean Sea and from the Black Sea to Lake Ohrid with its own government, army, and ...

2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation...

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2026/03/02

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North ...

1st March 1692: Salem witch trials begin in...

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2026/03/01

Salem’s witch hysteria began in January 1692 when both the daughter and niece of the Reverend Samuel Parris each began to suffer violent fits. In total twenty people were executed, and a further seven died in jail, before the paranoia came to an ...

28th February 202 BCE: The Han dynasty formally...

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2026/02/28

Following years of civil war following the collapse of the Qin state, Liu Bang defeated his main rival, Xiang Yu at the Battle of Gaixia and later declared himself emperor, establishing the Han dynasty with its capital at ...

27th February 1933: Reichstag building in Berlin set...

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2026/02/27

Communists were blamed for starting the fire in the Reichstag, and Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found and ...

26th February 1870: Beach Pneumatic Transit opens in...

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2026/02/26

The Beach Pneumatic Transit consisted of a 312-foot tunnel beneath Broadway, between Warren Street and Murray Street, through which a single, cylindrical passenger car was propelled back and forth by a large fan housed in a nearby ...

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