"On This Day: August 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Marilyn Monroe; birth of Neil Armstrong; the US, USSR, and UK sign the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile"
"On This Day: July 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of figure skater Michelle Kwan; Satchel Paige born; contstruction began on Hoover Dam; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born"
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"On This Day: May 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. John Wilkes Booth; Jacques Cousteau; Victoria Woodhull; Halley's Comet; double-agent Robert Hanssen"
"On This Day: May 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Lewis and Clark expedition; Skylab 1; small pox vaccination; State of Israel; Frank Sinatra; Facebook; George Lucas; BB King; Rita Hayworth"
"On This Day: June 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Jeannette Rankin; birth of Gene Wilder; Guangxu emperor of China issued his first reform decree initiating the Hundred Days of Reform"
"On This Day: May 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pope John Paul II is shot; Dr. Joyce Brothers wins The $64K Question; birth of Stevie Wonder, Dennis Rodman, Stephen Colbert, Lena Dunham, and Richie Valens"
"On This Day: July 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Independence Day; death of presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; birth of Rube Goldberg; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published"
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