On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal,&n
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we delve into Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's audacious invasion of the
July 12, 1979. A Major League Baseball promotion goes awry, causing a Chicago White Sox game to end
July 11, 2001. Following a protracted legal battle, the peer-to-peer music sharing software, Napster
July 10, 1985, members of the French secret service detonate two bombs sinking Greenpeace’s boat the
July 9, 1762: Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following a coup against her husband, Pe
July 8, 1898. Notorious confidence man Jefferson “Soapy” Smith is killed in a gunfight with a vigila
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we set sail on the Franklin Expedition of 1845 with the HMS Erebus and
July 5, 1954. Elvis Presley records his first single "That's All Right" at Sun Records in Memphis, i
July 4, 1862. An Oxford professor takes a boat ride and tells a fantastical story that he’ll eventua
July 3, 2013. Egypt’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, is ousted from his offi
July 2, 1839: Enslaved Africans rise up against their owners and take control of the slave ship Amis
July 1, 1885. King Leopold II of Belgium founds the Congo Free State and installs a regime that will
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we try to survive the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE i
June 28, 1969. Police raid the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City,
June 27, 1954. Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán is deposed in a CIA-
June 26, 1974. After decades of research and development, the first UPC barcode is successfully scan
June 25th 1950. The Korean War begins as North Korea sends troops below the 38th parallel invading S
June 24, 1535. A radical political uprising comes to an end when the city of Münster falls to an Bis
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we receive the gospel taught by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker- the husband
June 21, 1582. A Japanese warlord’s hopes of ruling the nation are brought to an end when he is betr
