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: 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: September 25. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. President Cleveland pardons polygamous Mormons; birth of William Faulkner; Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
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: 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
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: July 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, was born; 26th Amendment certified; bikini debuts; Isaac Newton's Principia was published; Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon
