Old News - a year in review

Andrew VanTimmeren
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  • History
  • Updated Semimonthly

A history podcast highlighting the biggest news stories of each year. Flashback highlight highlights recap annual review interesting time travel memory memories memorable old nostalgia nostalgic

  1. May 7

    Old News - year 2003

    2003 History: Iraq invasion, weapons of mass destruction WMDs, "Mission Accomplished", Abu Ghraib, Israeli-Palestine conflict, Hamas, SARS epidemic, Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, power blackout, Elizabeth Smart

    9 min

  2. Apr 23

    Old News - year 1939

    1939 History: Arab Revolt, White Paper of 1939, MS St. Louis Jewish Refugees, Hitler Mussolini Pact of Steel, German Soviet Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Gleiwitz incident, Polish invasions, WWII, SS killing unit Einsatzgruppen, Phoney War, Naval blockade, Radar, Fourth Neutrality Act, New York World's Fair, Superman

    11 min

  3. 12/25/2023

    Old News - year 1995

    1995 history: World Trade Organization WTO, Oklahoma City bombing, Bosnian War and Sebrenica genocide, Dayton Accords, Galileo, Jupiter, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Windows 95, OJ Simpson Trial, Toy Story, NBA Live 95

    8 min

  4. Apr 4

    Old News - year 1940

    1940 History: Norwegian campaign, Neville Chamberlain - Lord Halifax - Winston Churchill, German Blitzkrieg, Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, RAF, Operation Bernhardt, Peaky Blinders, 2nd Sino Japanese War, Tripartite Pact, Leon Trotsky assassination, Destroyers for Bases Agreement, America First Committee, Selective Training and Service Act, VP swaps, Charlie Chaplin, Billboard Music Chart

    23 min

  5. Mar 14

    Old News - year 1941

    1941 History: Lend Lease Act, PT Boat, Operation Barbarossa, Nazi, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Block 11, Zyklon B, Gas Chambers, Concentration Camp, Holocaust, Atlantic Charter, Roosevelt, FDR, Churchill, George Orwell, Ministry of Truth, Thought Police, Thought Crime, wire tapping, Smith Act, Alien Registration Act, Plutonium, Bebop, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Pearl Harbor

    17 min

  6. Feb 26

    Old News - year 1942

    1942 history: WWII, Allied Grand Strategy, Operation Torch, Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), Concentration Camps, Operation Reinhard, Holocaust, Fall of Bataan, Bataan Death March, Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway, Stalingrad, Duke of Kent, Executive Order 9066, Japanese American internment camps, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Lost Battalion, Rosie the Riveter, Operation Pastorius, Sabotage, John Edgar Hoover, military tribunal, Habeas Corpus, Ex parte Quirin, Duck Tape, Duct Tape, SPAM, Comic books, liquid stockings

    20 min

  7. Feb 5

    Old News - year 1943

    1943 History: WWII Italy Surender, Battle of Kursk, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Norden Bombsight, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Tehran Conference, Jefferson Memorial, Nylon, Vitamin K, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

    10 min

  8. Jan 24

    Old News - year 1944

    1944 history: Operation Overlord / D-Day, Normandy, Hitler's Atlantic Wall, Operation Bagration, Navajo Code Talkers, General Douglas MacArthur, Japanese Kamakaze, Bretton Woods Conference, World Bank, Battle of the Bulge, G.I. Gill, 22nd Amendment, Radar, Penicilin, Electrophoresis, Seventeen magazine

    13 min
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A history podcast highlighting the biggest news stories of each year. Flashback highlight highlights recap annual review interesting time travel memory memories memorable old nostalgia nostalgic

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  • Creator
    Andrew VanTimmeren
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    84
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Andrew VanTimmeren
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    Old News - a year in review