HistoryPod Scott Allsop
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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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23rd June 1960: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid as the first combined oral contraceptive pill in the world
400,000 women saw their doctors to obtain Enovid contraceptive prescriptions in the first ...
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22nd June 1940: France signs the Second Armistice of Compiègne with Nazi Germany which signals the Fall of France
Adolf Hitler seized the opportunity to inflict a symbolic humiliation on the French by signing the armistice in the same location, and in the same railway carriage, as the armistice of the First World ...
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21st June 1877: Ten Irish immigrants hanged for murder, having been accused of membership of the Molly Maguires secret society
Historians have since questioned the convictions, which saw ten men hanged for murder – six in the prison at Pottsville, and four at Mauch Chunk in Carbon ...
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20th June 1945: The United States approves the transfer of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to America
Wernher von Braun initially developed rockets for the United States Army, but was later made director of the Marshall Space Flight Center where he oversaw the design of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo spacecraft to the ...
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19th June 1865: Juneteenth is established when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3 which informed the enslaved African Americans of their ...
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18th June 1812: The War of 1812 began when President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain
Madison signed the declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the first time that the United States declared war on another ...