On This Day Podcast

The 47 Ronin avenge their master's death, and The Beatles perform together for the last time on the roof of the Apple Records Building in London...On This Day

Oprah Winfrey

Jackson Pollock, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster...On This Day

The Apollo I launchpad fire that takes the lives of NASA Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee...On This Day

Australia Day, Audie Murphy, and Wayne Gretzky & TPOH...On This Day

Burns Night & the celebration of Robert Burns, National Poet of Scotland...On This Day

One of the last Japanese Holdouts from World War 2 discovered hiding in the jungles of Guam...On This Day

Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion...On This Day

Apple's 1984 ad introducing the Macintosh airs for the first and only time on national television during the Superbowl...On This Day

National Hug Day, and the launch of the DeLorean DMC-12 aka the Back To The Future time machine...On This Day!

The Inauguration of the President of the United States of America...On This Day

Edgar Allen Poe & the Poe Toaster, Patricia Highsmith, and a pardon for Tokyo Rose...On This Day

Albert DeSalvo sentenced to life in prison, but not for the Boston Strangler murders...On This Day

The Doomsday Clock is set forward, and beware the military-industrial complex...On This Day

National Nothing Day, and Frank Zamboni inventor of the Zamboni...On This Day

Wikipedia Day, and the construction of The Pentagon...On This Day

Churchill & Roosevelt meet in Casablanca, and Elvis' Aloha From Hawaii...On This Day!

The crash of Air Florida Flight 90 and the heroes of the Potomac - Lenny Skutnik, Roger Olian, Don Usher, Gene Windsor and Arland D Williams Jr...On This Day.

John Singer Sargent

14-year old Leonard Thompson receives the first insulin injection...On This Day