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History Daily

On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to…

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History Daily

The Mock Battle of Manila

The First Antiseptic Surgery

The Watts Rebellion Takes Over Los Angeles

The Sinking of the Vasa

Saturday Matinee: I Know Dino

Alice Ramsey Completes Her Drive Across America

The Battle of Junin

The Murder of Vice Principal Bian Zhongyun

Britain Takes Control of Gibraltar

Jesse Owens Wins Gold in Nazi Germany

Saturday Matinee: American Criminal

The Arrest of the Murderous Dr. Crippen

Penguin’s First Paperbacks

Confederate Spy Belle Boyd is Captured

The United States Occupies Haiti

The Death of Vincent van Gogh

Saturday Matinee: Biography

Sri Lanka’s Black July

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Invasion

The Preparedness Day Bombing

The Scopes Monkey Trial

The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus

Saturday Matinee: In Pursuit

The Discovery of the Princes in the Tower

The Great Schism

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

The Lincoln Hospital Takeover

Live Aid Rocks Both Sides of the Atlantic

Saturday Matinee: History Snacks

Telstar Reaches Orbit

The First Convicted Train Murderer

The Death of Kim Il-Sung

The Roswell UFO Incident

The Execution of Thomas More

What Does the Declaration of Independence Mean, 250 Years Later?

The Downing of Iran Air Flight 655

America’s True Independence Day

The Creation of the Congo Free State

The Night of the Long Knives

The First Cyber Spy

Saturday Matinee: Founding Fathers: An American Dream

The Berlin Airlift Begins

The First Rainbow Flag

The End of the Münster Rebellion

The Monuments Men

The Cuyahoga River Fire Fuels America’s Environmental Movement

Saturday Matinee: Been There, Done That

Juneteenth

Theodore Roosevelt Splits the Republican Party

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

The Founding of Ford Motor Company

The Fraudulent Discovery of Troy

Saturday Matinee: What We Did Before

Retreat from Cold Harbor

Margaret Thatcher’s Last Election Victory

Benjamin Franklin’s Kite Experiment

Britain Leases Hong Kong

George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes a Literary Sensation

Saturday Matinee: Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

The First Scientific Report on the AIDS Epidemic

The Ten-Cent Beer Night Riot

The Extinction of the Great Auk

Billy Bishop’s Victoria Cross

The Beatles Release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Saturday Matinee: History of the Second World War

The Arrest of an Art Forger

Jell-O’s Trademark

A B-24 Crash Survivor Begins a Fight for Survival

America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park

The Edict of Worms

Saturday Matinee: Medal of Honor

The Disappearance of the USS Scorpion

Paris’s Bloody Week

The Meter Convention

The Invention of the Rubik’s Cube

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

Saturday Matinee: Anthology of Heroes

The Assassination of Japan's Prime Minister

The Second Salem Witch Trial