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MTIH 360 The Lost Colony, 1587
Today in 1587, 121 English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island, located off the coast of the modern state of North Carolina.  Thus began the story of "The Lost Colony", a mystery that remains with us 420 years after the colonists set foot in the New World. British colonies on the North American continent often began as semi-private enterprises wherein the monarch granted an individual or company a charter for the colonization of an area.  Such it was with Virginia, a huge area near t...

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[ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:41:05 -0700 ]


MTIH 359 Corrigan's Wrong Way Flight, 1938
Today in 1938, Douglas Corrigan arrived in Ireland, having flown there from New York solo in an aircraft that seemed hardly up to the task.  The story of his flight and the events that lead up to it lead Corrigan to a life of fame in both the United States and Europe and left him forever remembered as a pioneer in cross-ocean aviation. Douglas Corrigan was born in January, 1907 in Galveston, Texas.  He was 18 when he took his first plane ride, a short trip in a First World War-vintage Curtiss ...

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[ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:32:34 -0700 ]


MTIH 358 District of Columbia Created, 1790
Today in 1790, the Residence Act was signed into law by US President George Washington.  The act designated Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the temporary capital of the United States, but it also gave the President the power to create a federal district to serve as the permanent capital.  Thus was born Washington, District of Columbia. The location of the new nation's capital was the source of much heated debate in the early days of the United States.  The early federal government had met in bot...

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[ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:57:42 -0700 ]


MTIH 357 Medal of Honor Created, 1862
Today in 1862, a Congressional resolution providing for a Medal of Honor was signed into law.  It was and remains the highest decoration awarded to military personnel in the service of the United States.  In it's most current form, the Medal of Honor is bestowed upon a service member who distinguishes himself or herself "…conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his/her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States…...

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[ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:43:55 -0700 ]


MTIH 356 Zheng He Sets Sail, 1405
Today in 1405, Chinese admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) set sail on his first voyage, the beginning of a series of journeys that would greatly expand his nation's knowledge of the outside world.  While many details of these explorations have been lost to time, one thing is almost certain:  Zheng He's fleets traveled further and came into contact with more people of foreign birth than any other marine explorer up to that time. Zheng He was born Ma Sanbao in an area of southwest China that was still ...

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[ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:11:09 -0700 ]


MTIH 355 Hoover Dam Begins, 1930
Today in 1930, money was for appropriated by the United States Congress to build Hoover Dam, a concrete gravity-arch dam which straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.  It impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States.  While not the largest dam in the United States today, it remains a powerful symbol of the ability, ingenuity and work ethic of thousands of men during the worst economic crisis the modern world has ever seen. The Color...

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[ Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:34:15 -0700 ]


MTIH 354 Lou Gehrig Day, 1939
Today in 1939, Lou Gehrig delivered his famous closing speech at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of the Bronx.  This marked the symbolic end of Gehrig's career, a 17-season run that showed him to not only be an exceptional athlete, but a man of great character as well.   Henry Louis Gehrig was born in June, 1903 to poor German immigrants living in the Yorkville area of Manhattan.  Despite their poverty, the Gehrig's sent their son to Columbia University.  Their hope was that he wou...

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[ Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:27:32 -0700 ]


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[ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:27:59 -0700 ]


MTIH 353 The Berlin Airlift, 1948
Today in 1948, the Berlin Airlift began. This effort to feed more than two million people in the city of Berlin was unprecedented in the history of aviation, for never before had so many people in one location been supplied by air. The Airlift also showed that nonlethal forms of airpower could directly achieve national objectives. At the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Allies divided Germany into occupation zones: the American, French, and British zones in the west and a Soviet zo...

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[ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:21:53 -0700 ]


MTIH 352 The Unabomber Strikes Again, 1993
Today in 1993, Dr. David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, was severely injured by a bomb that had been mailed to his office. He lost part of his right hand, sight in one eye, and hearing in one ear. After a six-year long hiatus, the Unabomber was back. The string of bombings, with a history going back nearly 20 years, was the work of one man: Theodore Kaczynski. Kaczynski was born in May, 1942, in Chicago. During his fifth grade year, he was told that he could skip seve...

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[ Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:27:46 -0700 ]


MTIH 351 The Beetle is Born, 1934
Today in 1934, Ferdinand Porsche signed a contract with the German government to begin development of a “People's Car”, a vehicle that would be affordable, carry two adults and three children and run with limited maintenance for many years.  What emerged from this contract was a vehicle known by the German words for “People's Car”, “Volks-Wagen”.  Today, we call it the Beetle. The Volkswagen Beetle, officially known as the Type 1, began life during the Nazi regime in Germany.  In 1933, the sam...

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[ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:46:32 -0700 ]


MTIH 350 Juneteenth, 1865
Today in 1865, slavery in the United States and her territories came to an end.  Because of this, today is remembered as Juneteenth in parts of the US and in several other nations. You may be under the impression that the institution of slavery was ended in the United States on January 1st, 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.  In fact, the proclamation did not immediately free a single slave and was very limited in scope.  The proclamation declared that al...

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[ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:23:43 -0700 ]


MTIH 349 First Woman in Space, 1963
Today in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space.  Her flight not only marked a first for her sex, but also gave the Soviet Union another jump ahead in the early space race to the moon, a competition that would continue for the rest of the decade. Tereshkova was born in March, 1937 in the Central Federal District of the Soviet Union, not far from Moscow.  She attended state schools until she was 16, then went to work in a local coat factory.  During this time, sh...

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[ Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:54:34 -0700 ]


MTIH 348 Reagan at Brandenburg Gate,

It’s not often that our reviews of history include an actual audio record of the event, but today were are fortunate. 20 years ago today, US President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, a speech that is today one of his most remembered. Communism in Europe and the Soviet Union was on the decline in 1987, but few people outside of government knew it. For more than forty years, Germany had been a divided nation, torn into eastern and western halves as a resul...

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[ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:39:18 -0700 ]


MTIH 347 Operation Opera, 1981
Today in 1981, aircraft of the Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor located near Baghdad.  The consequences of the raid, both intended and unintended, helped to shape world opinion of Israel and took Iraq out of the nuclear club for the remainder of the 20th century. Iraq’s nuclear program began in the mid-1960’s, but it remained a mostly academic exercise until the late 1970’s, when the nation’s government sought to purchase an Osiris-class nuclear reactor from France.  T...

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[ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:48:18 -0700 ]


MTIH 346 First Drive-In Theater, 1933
Today in 1933, the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey.  This new business venture brought together two things Americans tend to be passionate about:  automobiles and movies.  The 70-year long history of the drive-in serves as a sort of model in miniature of the cultural history of the United States from the Great Depression to the dawn of the 21st century. The drive-in theater was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, a man of means whose family owned a chemical company in C...

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[ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:21:58 -0700 ]


MTIH 345 Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989
Today in 1989, elements of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army entered Tiananmen Square with the intention of ending the massive protests occurring there.  This marked the beginning of the end of the unrest both in Beijing and in other cities across the country.   Tiananmen Square is located near the center of the city of Beijing and is named after the Tiananmen, or Gate of Heavenly Peace, located at the northern end of the Square.  With a total area of over 526,000 square yards, it is the la...

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[ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:08:11 -0700 ]


MTIH 344 The Bonus Marchers, 1932
Today in 1932, veterans of the First World War began arriving in Washington, DC for a rally.  This was the beginning of what would become known as the Bonus Army, the largest gathering of veterans in the nation's history up to that time.  What transpired over the course of the next two months weeks forever change the relationship between the US federal government and those who risked life and limb in service to their nation. 1932 was one of the worst years of the Great Depression.  In the Unit...

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[ Mon, 28 May 2007 19:01:27 -0700 ]


MTIH Special Announcement - PLEASE LISTEN
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[ Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:56 -0700 ]


MTIH 343 The Squalus Rescue, 1939
Commissioned in early 1939, the USS Squalus was the 11th of the new Sargo class of submarines, which were named for fighting fish. This new breed of underwater boat was 310 feet long and 27 feet wide, larger than any previous class. She had improved surface and underwater speed and extended range, which enabled the sub to keep up with fleet surface ships up to a speed of 16 knots. She had seven watertight compartments, plus a conning tower and amenities such as flush toilets, air conditioning a...

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[ Wed, 23 May 2007 18:31:20 -0700 ]


MTIH 342 Brooks-Sumner Affair, 1856
Today in 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner severely in the chamber of the United States Senate.  The attack symbolized the building animosity between the North and South and caused further polarization as newspapers and public officials on both sides alternately condemned and praised the attack. Charles Sumner took his seat in the Senate in 1851, representing Massachusetts.  He was an impressive orator and had a powerful physical presence, standing six feet, four inc...

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[ Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:02 -0700 ]


MTIH 341 De Soto Dies, 1542
Today in 1542, Hernando de Soto died on the bank of the MIssissippi River near the present-day town of Lake Village, Arkansas.  His exploration of the southeastern United States in search of a passage to China and untold riches gave Europeans their first substantial assessment of the North American continent.  It also served as another brutal introduction to inland Native Americans of what was to come. De Soto was born in Extremadura, a region of Spain that produced many explorers, in 1496 or ...

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[ Sun, 20 May 2007 16:02:48 -0700 ]


MTIH 340 Second Anniversay Special
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[ Tue, 15 May 2007 18:18:36 -0700 ]


MTIH 339 Admiral Kimmel Dies, 1968
Today in 1968, retired US Navy Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel died in Groton, Connecticut.  Kimmel gained notoriety for his role as the Commander of the Pacific Fleet at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.  Today, the Kimmel family continues to fight for an accurate public accounting of his actions before and during that fateful day. Kimmel was born in Henderson, Kentucky on February 26, 1882.  He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1904 and began a career that...

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[ Mon, 14 May 2007 18:33:21 -0700 ]


MTIH 338 First Fleet Sails For Australia, 1787
Today in 1787, the First Fleet sailed from Portsmouth, England bound for New South Wales on the continent of Australia.  This marked the beginning of European settlement of the future country, although it was for less than noble reasons. Human beings have been living in Australia for as long as 65,000 years, but there is no surviving written history of that time.  While it has been theorized that the ancient Phoenicians, the Chinese or Portuguese were the first outsiders to explore the area, t...

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[ Sun, 13 May 2007 11:05:34 -0700 ]


MTIH 337 The Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Today in 1937,  The German zeppelin Hindenberg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.  Although not the first airship accident, this disaster marked the beginning of the end of passenger-carrying lighter-than-air craft due to its extensive coverage on radio and in newsreels. The rigid dirigible had been around since the 1870's, but it took German engineering to make the craft successful.  The term "zeppelin"...

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[ Sun, 06 May 2007 18:18:48 -0700 ]


MTIH 336 U-Boats Stand Down, 1945
Today in 1945, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Admiral Karl Donitz, ordered all of his nation's U-boats to cease offensive operations and return home.  Thus ended the Battle of the Atlantic, a struggle that ran the entire length of the Second World War and saw the sinking of thousands of ships and the loss of tens of thousands of lives. The German U-boat, short for Unterseeboot, made its initial appearance during the First World War.  They proved to be highly effective weapons, sink...

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[ Fri, 04 May 2007 20:48:50 -0700 ]


MTIH Second Anniversary Announcement
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[ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:12:18 -0700 ]


MTIH 335 The Fall of Saigon, 1975
Today in 1975, the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the North Vietnamese Army.  This marked the end of the Vietnam War and the end of South Vietnam as a separate nation.  The evacuation of thousands of Americans and South Vietnamese from the city, mainly by helicopter, marked the end of nearly 20 years of US involvement in the nation. The Paris Peace Accords, signed in 1973, ended direct US military involvement in Vietnam.  The accords also called for a cease-fire between the north an...

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[ Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:12:42 -0700 ]


MTIH 334 ANZAC Day, 1915
Today is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand.  The word "ANZAC" is an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, a force made up of two infantry divisions which took part in the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.  This battle, one of most well remembered from the First World War, helped to form the identities of these two nations. When the First World War began in the summer of 1914, Imperial Russia, which fought on the side of the Allied Powers, found herself isolated.  The nat...

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[ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:53:23 -0700 ]

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