On This Day: May 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Haymarket Affair; Nixon and Vietnam; Kent State killings; Ken Livingstone; Al Capone; Peter Minuit; Grammy Awards: Adam Yauch; Greensburg, KS
On This Day: August 19. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Coco Chanel; Lady Gaga's debut album The Flame released; death of Groucho Marx; Mikhail Gorbachev ousted in a coup
On This Day: September 2. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Crash of Swissair flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia; Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France and dies 24 years later
On This Day: August 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, overthrow of French King Louis XVI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court.
On This Day: September 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Labor Day celebrated as an official US holiday for the first time; death of director Frank Capra; murder of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco
On This Day: August 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars; US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
On This Day: August 21. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Lincoln-Douglas debates; Hawaii becomes 50th US state; Nat Turner led an unsuccessful slave rebellion
On This Day: August 26. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Amelia Boynton Robinson; battle failure of Joan of Arc; Dorothy Thompson expelled from Germany by Hitler; victim in 'Preppy Murder' trial found dead
On This Day: August 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Barack Obama; launch of US space probe Phoenix; and birth of Louis Armstrong.
On This Day: September 18. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of cyclist Lance Armstrong; death of musician Jimi Hendrix; birth of Greta Garbo.
On This Day: August 18. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Genghis Kahn; birth of Patrick Swayze, Roberto Clemente, Robert Redford, and Virginia Dare; death of Subhas Chandra Bose.
On This Day: August 20. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Launch of Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft; death of B. K. S. Iyengar; invasion of Czechoslovakia
