On This Day: June 27. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Yen adopted; Joseph Smith murdered; color tv demonstrated; birthday of Helen Keller; death of Jack Lemmon
On This Day: September 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Elizbeth I; murder of Tupac Shakur; Muslim army of Saladin attacked the Crusaders of Richard the Lionheart at the Battle of Arsuf
On This Day: August 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Earvin 'Magic' Johnson; construction of the Cologne Cathedral completed; Michael Jackson takes control of Beatles publishing rights.
On This Day: July 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Murder of Jean-Paul Marat; Live Aid benefit concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia; iconic Hollywood sign dedicated
On This Day: July 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder; Bastille Day; birth of animator William Hanna; death of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
On This Day: July 17. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Opening of Disneyland; execution of Russian Nicholas II and his family; crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17
On This Day: August 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sue the T-Rex discovered; Lennon declares the Beatles 'more popular than Jesus'; Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
On This Day: September 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Arnold Palmer, Steffi Graff completes tennis's Grand Slam, closing of Cats on Broadway after a record 7,485 shows
On This Day: July 15. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of American singer Linda Ronstadt; the unmanned space probe Mariner 4 returned close-up pictures of the surface of Mars; the murder of Gianni Versace.
On This Day: August 28. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech; murder of Emmett Till
On This Day: August 27. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Titian; baptism of Mother Teresa; birth of serial killer Ed Gein
On This Day: September 8. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Ruby Bridges, birth of Bernie Sanders, birth of Peter Sellers, premiere of Star Trek TV show.
