HISTORY This Week
HISTORY
HISTORY This Week
HISTORY
This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today.
Lundi 30 Mars 2020 : April 5, 1918. The first mention of a new influenza outbreak in Kansas appears in a public health report. That strain, later called the...
Lundi 23 Mars 2020 : March 28, 1939. Two teams are facing off for the final game of World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, the first professional...
Lundi 16 Mars 2020 : March 19, 1931. Las Vegas is a small, desert town of a few thousand. And it’s not doing so well. In fact, people are worried it might...
Lundi 09 Mars 2020 : The Ides of March, 44 BC. Ancient Rome’s most powerful dictator, Julius Caesar, is running late to a senate meeting. When he arrives,...
Lundi 02 Mars 2020 : March 7th, 1985. “We Are the World” hits the shelves. It's an instant hit, breaking the top of the charts and making music history. This...
Lundi 24 Février 2020 : February 28, 1953. Two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, burst into a bar and exclaim that they have discovered the secret of...
Lundi 17 Février 2020 : February 21, 1994. Early in the morning, FBI agents assemble near the home of Aldrich Ames. They wait for him to leave his house and then...
Lundi 10 Février 2020 : February 11, 1940. Hattie McDaniel becomes the first-ever African American to be nominated for, and then win, an Oscar. Her legacy is...
Dimanche 02 Février 2020 : February 3, 1870. The 15th Amendment is ratified, which establishes the right to vote for black men in America. While Jim Crow laws would...
Dimanche 26 Janvier 2020 : January 27, 1945. This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Nazi Germany's largest concentration...
Lundi 20 Janvier 2020 : January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary,...
Lundi 13 Janvier 2020 : January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial...
Vendredi 10 Janvier 2020 : January 11th, 1964. The US Surgeon General announces: smoking is killing us. It’s an announcement that changed the course of American...
Jeudi 02 Janvier 2020 : This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we...
HISTORY This Week
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The Deadliest Pandemic in Modern History
April 5, 1918. The first mention of a new influenza outbreak in Kansas appears in a public health report. That strain, later called the...
When Basketball Meets Jim Crow
March 28, 1939. Two teams are facing off for the final game of World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, the first professional...
How Lady Luck Saved Vegas
March 19, 1931. Las Vegas is a small, desert town of a few thousand. And it’s not doing so well. In fact, people are worried it might...
The Real Assassination of Caesar
The Ides of March, 44 BC. Ancient Rome’s most powerful dictator, Julius Caesar, is running late to a senate meeting. When he arrives,...
Lionel, Stevie and Tina Walk into a Studio…
March 7th, 1985. “We Are the World” hits the shelves. It's an instant hit, breaking the top of the charts and making music history. This...
The DNA Debate
February 28, 1953. Two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, burst into a bar and exclaim that they have discovered the secret of...
A Mole in the CIA
February 21, 1994. Early in the morning, FBI agents assemble near the home of Aldrich Ames. They wait for him to leave his house and then...
The Legacy of an Oscar
February 11, 1940. Hattie McDaniel becomes the first-ever African American to be nominated for, and then win, an Oscar. Her legacy is...
When Black Men Won the Vote
February 3, 1870. The 15th Amendment is ratified, which establishes the right to vote for black men in America. While Jim Crow laws would...
Surviving Auschwitz
January 27, 1945. This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Nazi Germany's largest concentration...
The Apple Ad That Changed the World
January 22, 1984. Apple launches the first Macintosh computer, with a showstopping Super Bowl commercial. The ad itself was revolutionary,...
The Great Boston Molasses Flood
January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial...
Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined...
January 11th, 1964. The US Surgeon General announces: smoking is killing us. It’s an announcement that changed the course of American...
Introducing: HISTORY This Week
This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we...
