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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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5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan...

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2026/02/05

The group, which included six foreign Franciscan friars, three Japanese Jesuits, and seventeen Japanese lay Christians, was sentenced to death by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after statements from a shipwrecked crew suggested that missionaries prepared the way for military ...

4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended...

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2026/02/04

The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ...

3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its...

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2026/02/03

Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a ...

2nd February 1887: First officially recorded...

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2026/02/02

The custom of predicting the weather using an animal drew on older beliefs brought to North America by German-speaking immigrants, whose tradition stated that clear weather on that date suggested a prolonged winter while overcast conditions indicated an early ...

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to...

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2026/02/01

The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department ...

31st January 1990: McDonald’s opens its first fast...

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2026/01/31

Although a standard hamburger cost the price of ten loaves of bread, some news outlets estimated that 30,000 people passed through the doors on the first ...

30th January 1975: Rubik’s Cube first patented by...

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2026/01/30

International recognition came after the cube was exhibited at the 1979 Nuremberg Toy Fair where it attracted the attention of the Ideal Toy Company, and was later renamed Rubik's ...

29th January 1856: The Victoria Cross medal for...

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2026/01/29

The Victoria Cross, which is commonly referred to as the VC, is the highest military decoration in the British honours system and takes precedence over every other order and ...

28th January 1986: NASA Space Shuttle orbiter...

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2026/01/28

At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half ...

27th January 1973: Paris Peace Accords end direct...

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2026/01/27

The final agreement signed on 27 January 1973 called for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of all US combat forces within sixty days, and the return of American prisoners of ...

26th January 1564: Pope Pius IV confirms the decrees...

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2026/01/26

Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant ...

25th January 1890: American journalist Nellie Bly...

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2026/01/25

With £200 in English gold and banknotes, and a single bag that was smaller than modern carry-on luggage, Bly departed from Hoboken Pier in New Jersey on board the Augusta Victoria steamship on 14 November ...

24th January 1890: The Shigir Idol, the oldest wooden...

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2026/01/24

The prehistoric sculpture, which is twice as old as the pyramids, was found during gold mining operations at the Shigir peat bog near present-day ...

23rd January 1556: The deadliest earthquake ever...

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2026/01/23

Scientists have since judged that the earthquake had a magnitude of around 8.0 on the Richter scale, and have had no reason to question the traditional estimates of around 830,000 ...

22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates...

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2026/01/22

The Portuguese royal family and more than 10,000 courtiers relocated to Brazil to escape the advancing Napoleonic ...

21st January 1968: United States B-52 bomber carrying...

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2026/01/21

On impact, the conventional explosives in the nuclear weapons detonated, but fortunately did not trigger a nuclear explosion. Nevertheless, radioactive material was scattered over a wide ...

20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the...

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2026/01/20

Robert McClure departed England with HMS Investigator to lead the first expedition to transit the Northwest ...

19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop...

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2026/01/19

The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20th ...

18th January 1778: Captain James Cook becomes the...

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2026/01/18

Cook anchored off Kauaʻi and later Niʻihau, making contact with the islanders over the following days and exchanged food, water, and other ...

17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War...

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2026/01/17

Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalition aircraft flew in excess of 1,000 sorties a day for five ...

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