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The Daily History Chronicle

University Teaching Edition

Every date on the calendar marks a moment that changed everything. Welcome to The Daily History Chronicle, where host Richard Backus, publisher of University Teaching Edition, brings history to life through compelling 15-minute stories that connect the past to our present. Each day, we travel back to explore a pivotal moment in history, from revolutions and discoveries to tragedies and triumphs. But these aren"t just dates and facts. They"re stories of courage, conflict, innovation, and

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16:47

January 23, 1849: The Doctor They Admitted as a Joke

The Daily History Chronicle ·

2026/01/23

On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. She had been rejected by twenty-nine schools. The one that accepted her did so as a joke the students voted yes because they thought it was a prank. She graduated first in her class, lost an eye to her profession, and opened doors that would never close again.

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18:19

January 22, 1905, Bloody Sunday: The Massacre That...

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2026/01/22

On January 22, 1905, Russian workers marching peacefully to petition their Tsar were gunned down in the snow outside the Winter Palace. The Tsar wasn't even there. The massacre destroyed the bond between ruler and ruled, sparked the 1905 Revolution, and set Russia on a path that ended with the Romanov dynasty's extinction fourteen years later.

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17:05

January 21, 1793, The Last King

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2026/01/21

On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI became the first French king to be executed by his own people. This episode explores his final hours the farewell to his family, the silent carriage ride through Paris, the moment on the scaffold and asks what happens when a nation decides to kill not just a man, but an entire order.

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17:38

January 20, 1924, Ninety Minutes

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2026/01/20

On January 20, 1942, fifteen Nazi officials gathered at a lakeside villa in suburban Berlin for a ninety-minute meeting that coordinated the bureaucratic machinery for murdering eleven million Jews. This episode explores the Wannsee Conference not as the moment genocide was decided, but as a window into how modern institutions can become instruments of unprecedented evil.

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17:32

January 19, 1915, The Night the Sky Became a Weapon

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2026/01/19

On January 19, 1915, German Zeppelins bombed Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn, killing four civilians and marking the first aerial bombardment of British soil. This episode explores the victims, the attackers, and how one night over Norfolk changed the nature of warfare forever.

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18:53

January 18, 1871, Blood and Iron

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2026/01/18

On January 18, 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in the heart of French glory, while Paris starved under siege. Otto von Bismarck had united Germany through "blood and iron." But the humiliation he inflicted on France would be repaid in 1919, in the same room, with consequences that shaped the twentieth century.

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17:18

January 17, 1961, The General's Warning

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2026/01/17

On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower the five-star general who led D-Day delivered his farewell address warning Americans about the "military-industrial complex." His phrase has echoed through six decades of political debate. This is the story of a warrior's plea for peace, and a warning that remains urgent today.

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17:59

January 16, 1979: The Shah Is Gone

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2026/01/16

On January 16, 1979, the Shah of Iran fled his country in tears, never to return. His departure sparked celebrations across Tehran and set in motion events that would reshape the Middle East: Khomeini's return, the Islamic Republic, the hostage crisis, and decades of American-Iranian hostility. This is the story of a king's fall and a revolution's rise.

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17:22

January 15, 1919: A Wall of Sweet Death

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2026/01/15

On January 15, 1919, a wave of molasses tore through Boston's North End at 35 miles per hour, killing 21 people and injuring 150 more. The tank had been leaking for years. The company had painted it brown to hide the problem. This is the story of one of America's strangest disasters and what it taught us about corporate accountability.

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17:18

January 14, 1943: The Words That Ended a War

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2026/01/14

On January 14, 1943, Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Casablanca for a secret meeting that would determine how World War II would end. Ten days later, he announced a policy of "unconditional surrender," two words that shaped the fate of nations and still echo in every conflict since.

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17:20

January 13, 1898: The Most Dangerous Weapon in France

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2026/01/13

On January 13, 1898, Émile Zola published "J'Accuse" a blistering open letter that accused the French military of framing Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason. It was the most dangerous act of journalism in French history, and it changed everything

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16:07

January 12, 1888: The Day the Sky Turned Black at Noon

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2026/01/12

On January 12, 1888, an Arctic storm swept across the Great Plains with almost no warning, catching farmers in their fields and children walking home from school. The Schoolchildren's Blizzard killed at least 235 people and left survivors with impossible questions about luck, decisions, and nature's indifference.

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16:50

January 11, 1935: The Flight That Should Have Made...

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2026/01/11

On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart attempted what ten pilots had died trying: a solo flight across 2,400 miles of open Pacific from Hawaii to California. She succeeded, but the controversy surrounding the flight and the mystery of her later disappearance would overshadow what remains her greatest technical achievement.

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17:51

January 10, 1776: The Most Dangerous Words Ever...

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2026/01/10

On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published a 47-page pamphlet that sold 500,000 copies and transformed American independence from a radical idea into "common sense." It was brilliant political philosophy. It was also masterful propaganda. Both things are true and that tension still shapes how we argue about politics today.

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16:42

January 9, 2007: The Day the Old World Ended (And You...

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2026/01/09

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled a device that would reshape human civilization. The iPhone wasn't just a revolutionary product; it was the beginning of the attention economy, always-on connectivity, and a new relationship between humans and information. The executives who dismissed it were thinking about phones. Jobs was thinking about how we live.

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17:28

January 8, 1918: The Speech That Promised Peace and...

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2026/01/08

On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress and outlined his Fourteen Points for ending World War I and building a lasting peace. His vision included open diplomacy, self-determination for European peoples, and a League of Nations to prevent future wars. The speech was revolutionary, translated into dozens of languages, and greeted with hope by war-weary populations. But Wilson's vision was fatally compromised by his own contradictions. He championed self-determination

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17:26

January 7, 1610: The Night Earth Lost Its Place in...

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2026/01/07

On January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei pointed his homemade telescope at Jupiter and saw three points of light that would change everything. Over the next week, he realized these weren't stars but moons orbiting Jupiter proving that celestial objects could orbit something other than Earth. This simple observation shattered fifteen centuries of certainty. If Jupiter could carry moons while moving through space, then Earth could carry its Moon while orbiting the Sun. The discovery validated

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16:31

January 6, 1912: The Most Mocked Idea in Science,...

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2026/01/06

On January 6, 1912, thirty-one-year-old German meteorologist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the Geological Association in Frankfurt, arguing that continents had once been joined in a supercontinent and gradually drifted apart. He offered compelling evidence: South America and Africa fit together like puzzle pieces, identical fossils appeared on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, matching rock formations spanned continents now separated by thousands of miles

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16:51

January 5, 1914: The Day Henry Ford Invented the...

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2026/01/05

On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced he would pay Ford Motor Company workers an unprecedented five dollars per day more than double the prevailing wage and reduce the workday from nine hours to eight. The decision made international headlines and seemed to herald a new era of corporate benevolence. Workers could finally afford the Model T automobiles they built. Other industries raised wages to compete. The American middle class began its rise. But there was a catch that transformed

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16:51

January 4, 1847: The Technology of Conquest

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2026/01/04

On January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt signed a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 .44 caliber revolvers, creating the first successful repeating firearm and transforming frontier warfare forever. But this isn't a simple story of American innovation. For decades before Colt's breakthrough, the Comanche recognized even by European-trained cavalry officers as the finest light horsemen in the world had dominated the Texas frontier through superior tactics and extraordinary

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