On This Day Podcast

Thomas Paine's Common Sense is published...On This Day

The Star Of The West comes under fire in Charleston Harbor, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge...On This Day

America is debt free! (for a brief moment in time), and David Bowie...On This Day!

Captain Thomas Mantell chases a UFO across Kentucky...On This Day

Mother Teresa arrives in India, and Nancy Kerrigan gets clubbed in the knee...On This Day.

Whipped Cream Day, and Nixon announces the development of the Space Shuttle program...On This Day

Louis Braille

The surrender of Panama's Manuel Noriega...On This Day

The Duquesne Spy Ring, the national speed limit lowered to 55mph, and Judith Miller...On This Day.

New Year's Day, Public Domain Day, National Blood Donor Month, John Newton performs his hymn Amazing Grace for the first time, and the first Tournament of Roses...On This Day!

New Year's Eve, Times Square ball drop, and Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease on a brewery in Dublin...On This Day!

The Gadsden Purchase, Wayne Gretzky scores 50 goals in 39 games, and Rudyard Kipling, Russ Tamblyn, James Burrows, Mike Nesmith & Davy Jones, Lloyd Kaufman, Patti Smith and Tracey Ullman - all born On This Day.

The 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing, and Mary Tyler Moore...On This Day

Construction begins on Yonge Street in Toronto, Kim Il-Sung named President of North Korea, and Stan Lee...On This Day!

FDR's OPA initiates the first rationing program during World War II...On This Day

Boxing Day, St. Stephen's Day, Wren Day, Kwanzaa, Junkanoo, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami...On This Day.

Washington crosses the Delaware, Jesus, Isaac Newton, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Buffet, Annie Lennox, Sissy Spacek, Justin Trudeau, and James Brown wishing you a Soulful Christmas...On This Day!

The Christmas Truce of World War I...On This Day

Admiral James Stockdale: Aviator, POW, Medal of Honor recipient, Vice Presidential Candidate

General McAuliffe tells the German commander "Nuts!" at Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge...On This Day!