Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 15:1904 - The steamship General Slocum caught fire and sank in New York harbour. Around 1,000 people died, many of them women and children on a church outing.1919 - The Englishmen John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first non-sto
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1998: Nigeria's new military leadership releases nine of the country's most prominent political prisone.
In second half of the 19th century, after the conclusion of the Civil War and into the 20th century, there was a major influx of immigrants looking for work, as well as advances in technology. This boom happened faster than safety measures like labor laws and fire codes could advance to anything like what we […]
When I first started listening to podcasts in earnest in the early 2010s, I gravitated toward reruns of public radio shows and original broadcasts about history. One of my favorites
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