HistoryPod

398 Episodes

1. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

   Published: 12/18/2024
2. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

   Published: 12/17/2024
3. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

   Published: 12/16/2024
4. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

   Published: 12/15/2024
5. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

   Published: 12/14/2024
6. 13th December 1939: The Battle of the River Plate takes place off the coast of Uruguay and Argentina as the first major naval battle of WW2

   Published: 12/13/2024
7. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

   Published: 12/12/2024
8. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

   Published: 12/11/2024
9. 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

   Published: 12/10/2024
10. 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

    Published: 12/9/2024
11. 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

    Published: 12/8/2024
12. 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

    Published: 12/7/2024
13. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

    Published: 12/6/2024
14. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

    Published: 12/5/2024
15. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

    Published: 12/4/2024
16. 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter

    Published: 12/3/2024
17. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

    Published: 12/2/2024
18. 1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

    Published: 12/1/2024
19. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

    Published: 11/30/2024
20. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

    Published: 11/29/2024