250 Most Impactful Moments in American History

75: Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan after a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, CA  76: President Andrew Johnson's attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton results in his Impeachment by the House. He is acquitted by the Senate by one vote  77: The Great Chicago Fire, as well as three others, displaced nearly 100k people, while the Peshtigo Fire killed 2,500, making it the deadliest fire in U.S. history  78: Henry Ford's Model T is launched in Detroit, Michigan, with an initial price of $850. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company's magneto assembly line is utilized, igniting the era of mass production ft. Ford Archives & Heritage Brand Manager Ted Ryan.   79: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after launch, killing everyone on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, ft. Founding Chair of the Challenger Center Dr. June Scobee Rodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

80: 52 American hostages are released from Iran after 444 days in captivity ft. Fox News Contributor and Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano.    79: President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law. The most impactful of the New Deal initiatives   78: President Trump is shot while campaigning at an outdoor rally in Butler, PA. The former president was grazed in his ear while an audience member was killed and two others injured. The shooter was killed at the scene ft. National Political Reporter for the Washington Examiner and author of Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland, Salena Zito.  77: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigating communism in the film industry. Three years later in 1950 US Senator Joe McCarthy accuses the State Dept. of being filled with 205 Communists.   76: The Soviet puppet regime of East Germany begins construction of The Berlin Wall separating East and West and challenging U.S. foreign policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

85: Former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot on his way to a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Not only did Roosevelt survive but he gave (an abridged version of) the speech   84: The Supreme Court decides in Roe v. Wade that states could no longer ban abortions   83: The Supreme Court rules that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion this decision overrules 1973's Roe v Wade and 1992's Planned Parenthood v Casey. The issue of abortion is returned to the states ft. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and co-author of Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion, Geoffrey R. Stone.  82: The U.S. begins work on the Panama Canal 81: Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces launch the Tet Offensive, though a tactical defeat for the Vietcong forces, it is successful in driving US public opinion against the war ft. Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post Columnist, and NYT Bestselling Author of Reagan: His Life and Legend, Max Boot.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

90: The infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and later found murdered   89: Korean War: North Korean forces invade South Korea, America sends troops to intervene ft. President of Geopolitics and Foreign Policy at CSIS, Georgetown University Professor, & author of China's Weaponization of Trade .   88: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, AL   87: The Washington Monument is completed 36 years after construction began ft. Business and economic historian, American Heritage contributing editor, & author of Washington's Monument: And the Men Who Built It, John Steele Gordon. 86: John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

95: German airship The Hindenburg bursts into flames while mooring in Lakehurst, New Jersey killing 35   94: President Reagan is shot by John Hinckley Jr - Reagan would survive the attempt along with two others that were injured in the attack ft. Emeritus Professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College, Dr. Stephen F. Knott.    93: War in Afghanistan: The US and a vast coalition of allies invade Afghanistan to depose the Taliban regime and capture Osama bin Laden   92: President Roosevelt addresses the nation in the first of his "Fireside Chats" ft. Professor of History and Judy and Peter Kovler Foundation Fellow in Roosevelt Studies at Marist University, & Senior Fellow and Resident Historian at the Roosevelt Institute, Dr. David B. Woolner.    91: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to run the FBI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

100: Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier, becoming the first Black man to play Major League Baseball ft. President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick.    99: Zachary Taylor dies in office. Millard Fillmore becomes President   98: The USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba killing 266 escalating tensions that lead to the Spanish-American War ft. Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University & Public Historian of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane.    97: President Kennedy sets a goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade   96: President Harding dies of a heart attack. Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumes the presidency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

105: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of espionage and sentenced to death ft. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research & author of Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy, Anne Sebba. 104: Alaska is purchased by Secretary of State William Seward from Russia for $7.2M. It is lampooned as Seward's Folly   103: In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court declares the right to same-sex marriages to be Constitutional in the United States   102: President Clinton denies "sexual relations" with 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky. The President would later admit that he "did indeed" have a relationship with the intern. Later that year President Clinton becomes the first US President since Andrew Johnson to be impeached. ft. Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Examiner & FOX News Contributor, Byron York. 101: After being defeated by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams becomes the first incumbent president to lose an election and peacefully transfer power to his successor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

110: President Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law abolishing racial segregation   109: Samuel Morse demonstrates electric telegraphy for the first time. Six years later in 1844 - "What hath God wrought" Samuel Morse sends his first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore ft. Curator of Electricity Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Hal Wallace.    108: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail ft. Chair of the Center for the American Dream at the America First Policy Institute, Dr. Alveda King.    107: Vietnam War: Two US destroyers come under fire in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson expands the war effort based upon this incident.   106: The New York Stock Exchange nosedives nearly taking out the American economy. It is given a reprieve by a group of investors led by J.P. Morgan who pool $25M to invest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

115: Andrew Carnegie consolidates all of his business under one umbrella with the Carnegie Steel Company   114: President Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans   113: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland ft. Executive Vice President & Provost at UT Austin and Author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, Dr. William Inboden.     112: U.S. Military Academy at West Point opens   111: Operation Desert Storm: United States forces repel Iraq from Kuwaiti territory ft. Former White House Press Secretary (serving under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) Marlin Fitzwater.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

120: Homegrown terrorists Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols set of a bomb at the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK killing 168 people including 19 children  119: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill setting off the California Gold Rush ft. Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Anthea Hartig.   118: Construction on the Hoover Dam is completed  117: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Women's Suffrage Association in New York. Three years later in 1872, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of law. She is arrested and fine $100 dollars - which she never pays ft. Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University & author of the prize-winning book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, Dr. Lisa Tretault.   116: The Teapot Dome land scandal cripples the Harding Administration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

125: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is killed by Native American forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn ft. Author of Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, Tom Clavin.     124: President Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law establishing plan for a national currency backed by securities   123: The United States military and a coalition of allies invades Iraq to disarm the country of weapons of mass destruction they believed Iraq to possess.   122: President Nixon is the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China   121: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor ft. Professor of History and Director of the NYU Institute of French Studies, Edward Berenson.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

130: The 18th Amendment authorizing Prohibition is passed. Prohibition would be repealed in 1933 with the passage of the 21st Amendment  129: Gangland: A shootout between policemen led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow end in the deaths of the bank robbers. Gangster and Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio. A shootout between FBI agents and George "Baby Face" Nelson ends with the death of Nelson and FBI Special Agent Samuel P. Cowley ft. Author of Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, John Boessenecker.  128: Tulsa Race Massacre: A mob attacks Black owned businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma killing between 100-300, destroying 1,250 homes and imprisoning 6,000 African Americans  127: The US begins a final drawdown of forces in Afghanistan. In the chaotic withdrawal 13 American service members are killed in a terror attack carried out by ISIS-K $7B in military equipment is captured by the Taliban ft. FOX News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst.   126: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery   134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter   133: America's fourth largest bank Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, kicking off a month of possible worldwide economic collapse ft Former US Attorney, Senior Partner at Jenner & Block, & Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas.    132: The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the United States. President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak freeing up $50B in emergency funding as schools and businesses begin closing across the country ft Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center & FOX News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel.    131: President Johnson announces his Great Society during his State of the Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

140: Jesse James and his gang commit the first train robbery in the American West in Adair, Iowa. In 1876 Lawman Wyatt Earp begins work as a peace officer in Dodge City, KS. The same year outlaw Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. In 1881 Tombstone, AZ is sight of the gunfight at the OK Corral. And in 1882 the legendary Jesse James is killed by fellow outlaw Robert Ford in his home in St. Joseph, MO. ft. Author of Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West, Tom Clavin.   139: The first major wagon trail heads west on the Oregon Trail with over a thousand pioneers from Missouri  138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi  138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi 137: President Reagan announces SDI a missile defense program intended to intercept enemy missiles ft. Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow.   136: The Spanish Flu Pandemic hits the US Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

145: Vietnam War: The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war ends  144: President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to escort Black students into a newly integrated Little Rock Central High School. Three years later in 1960 Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all white elementary school. ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author of Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis, John A. Kirk  143: The Brooklyn Bridge is open to traffic in New York City 142: The Senate rejects joining the League of Nations and refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles 141: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas and author of LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, Randall B. Woods  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

150: Whiskey Rebellion - President Washington mobilizes a federal army to put down an insurrection in western Pennsylvania ft. Historian, Lecturer at Robert Morris University, Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, and author of The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, Brady J. Crytzer   149: Truck bombs kill 241 American servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon - Terrorist organization Islamic Jihad would claim responsibility  148: The first transcontinental railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah with a golden spike  147: In Selma, Alabama Civil Rights protestors make two attempts to the Edmund Pettis bridge on a march to Montgomery but are met with violent resistance by police forces injuring scores and killing one. A third attempt is successful.  146: Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is approved for mass distribution by the FDA ft. Son of polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk & Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Dr. Peter Salk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

155: US Airways Flight 1549 loses both of its engines after striking a flock of birds. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger successfully lands the plane in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers. ft. Resilience Partners Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, Best-selling author, & Last Passenger off US Airways Flight 1549, Dave Sanderson.    154: U.S. Supreme Court finds Standard Oil to be a monopoly and orders it to be dissolved. ft Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Daniel Yergin.   153: Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech   152: Oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Astronauts abort the mission but return to Earth safely   151: The legend says the game of baseball is "invented" in Cooperstown, New York by Abner Doubleday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

160: Black Monday - DJIA falls 508 points - 22.6%, its largest single day percentage drop in history   159: The Land Act of 1820 lowers prices in the Missouri and Northwest territories with the goal of encouraging western movement ft. Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Professor Emeritus of History, & Author of The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics, Dr. Daniel Feller.    158: Members of a cult following Charles Manson murder actress Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles, CA. The next day they would kill businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. ft. Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Licensed Private Investigator, and True Crime Author, Dr. Joni Johnston.    157: A bomb explodes in the World Trade Center killing seven. The attack was planned by a small terror cell including Sheik Abdel Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Yousef would later be captured in Pakistan and found guilty in a NY court.   156: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, putting American currency on the gold standard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

165: The first televised presidential debate takes place between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon ft. Author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, Alan Schroeder    164: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered in Los Angeles. The prime suspect former running back O.J. Simpson evades capture by leading police on a low-speed chase before his eventual arrest ft. attorney and host of the Crime & Justice podcast,  Donna Rotunno.    163: American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo   162: Sacco and Vanzetti a pair of Italian-American anarchists and convicted murderers are killed via electric chair   161: Clara Barton establishes the American Red Cross Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

170: Al Qaeda suicide bombers crash a small craft into the USS Cole killing 17 sailors ft. Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold 169: The last draft lottery for the US military is held 168: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization - a process to strengthen rubber   167: In a crime that outraged the nation, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder 14 year old Bobby Franks  ft Professor of History & Political Science at John Jay College & author of For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago, Simon Baatz   166: The Supreme Court rules that Africans aboard the ship Amistad were taken into slavery illegally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

175: Bleeding Kansas escalates as anti and pro slavery forces take up arms in the Wakarusa War  174: Amelia Earhart disappears after taking off from New Guinea  173: The FBI raids a compound in Waco, Texas led by cult leader David Koresh. A fire breaks out during the raid killing 76 Branch Davidian members including at least 20 children ft Retired FBI Special Agent and former HRT Operator, Charlie Rasner  172: The US fails in its Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba resulting in the expansion of power of the Castro regime ft. Author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, Jim Rasenberger  171: Spanish-American War: Theodore Roosevelt leads his Rough Riders in a cavalry charge up San Juan Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

180: President Eisenhower in his farewell address warns against the power of a "military industrial complex" ft. Founding Director of the Eisenhower Institute and Author of How Ike Led, Susan Eisenhower 179: The Donner Party becomes snowbound   178: Riots break out in Los Angeles following the not guilty verdict in the Rodney King case. 63 people were killed 12k people arrested and $1B worth of damage.  ft. Former Attorney General and Founding Partner at Torridon Law PLLC, Bill Barr 177: President Truman implements the Truman Doctrine, pledging US support to democracies against authoritarianism.   176: Sandra Day O'Connor is confirmed as the first female justice of the Supreme Court Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

185: Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver   184: The Missouri Compromise becomes law: admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state   183: 2000 Presidential Election ends in controversy with numerous lawsuits in the state of Florida and ending with a 5-4 Supreme Court decision. George Bush defeats Al Gore for the Presidency ft. FOX News Contributor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove   182: President Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act empowering forces to combat the group   181: Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph which he later demonstrates ft. Research Professor;  Director and General Editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, Paul Israel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

190: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone ft. former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer, & author of best-selling books The Steve Jobs Way, & Leading Apple with Steve Jobs, Jay Elliot   189: Simultaneous bombings at US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kill 224 and injure 4,500. The bombings are attributed to the al Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden 188: Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents and begins advertising a beverage that will be known as Coca-Cola 187: The Freedom Riders begin bus rides into the South to test the 1960 Boynton decision, a bus is later firebombed and another has all riders arrested for disturbing the peace ft. Author and Photographer of Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, Eric Etheridge 186: A fire breaks out in the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a launch pad test killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

195: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger   194: George Eastman founds the Eastman Kodak Company   193:The Empire State Building is completed displacing the Chrysler Building as the world's tallest ft. Architectural Historian & Author, Anthony W. Robins    192: Radical abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on the Harper's Ferry Armory. The raid is ended by troops led by General Robert E. Lee. ft. Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, David S. Reynolds    191: The U.S. enters the United Nations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured Moments: 200: Entrepreneur Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, ft. biographer and author of Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it all Away, Lisa Napoli  199: An American U2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union. Pilot Gary Powers successfully ejects and is captured.  198: Hurricane Katrina slams into the Gulf Coast states, killing more than 1,500 and causing $108B in damage ft. distinguished scholar, Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, John M. Barry  197: Edison's kinetoscope premiered at his New Jersey lab. 196: Two high school students open fire on their teachers and classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO in a pre-planned attack, murdering 13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   205: Somali rebels shoot down two US Black Hawk helicopters. The ensuing firefight sees 18 US soldiers dead   204:Twenty children aged 6 and 7 and six teachers are killed in a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT ft. Molly Line, Fox News Correspondent and onsite reporter during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting    203: NASA announces its Mercury Seven, the first US astronauts   202: A shooter opens fire on a music festival from a hotel room in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV killing 59 and injuring 869. It is the deadliest mass shooting in American history 201: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota ft. Interior Secretary &  former two-term Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   210: 46 year old George Floyd is killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis, MN - the bystander video sparks nationwide outrage resulting in the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement resulting in social justice protests, but also riots, looting and deaths   209: January 6th: Supporters of President Trump storm Capitol Hill while Congress was attempting to certify the 2020 Presidential Election. Congress would evacuate and reconvene later that night to certify the results. President Trump would concede the election the next day but would be impeached by the House of Representatives and later acquitted by the Senate.   208: The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions establish an eight hour workday   207: Microsoft Co. releases its first version of Windows ft. FOX Business Host Stuart Varney 206: Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland it is later determined to be a terror attack linked to Libya ft. Dick Marquise, Retired FBI Special Agent and Lead Investigator of Pan Am Flight 103 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   235: The Coors Brewing Company begins producing beer in Golden, CO. Three years later Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, MO markets their pale lager for the first time.   234: President Trump becomes the first sitting US president to set foot on North Korean soil during a meeting at the DMZ   233: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman   232: African American track star Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Summer Olympics ft. Dr. Kevin Jones, Dean of the School of Education at Cedarville University and co-author of Jesse Owens: A Life In American History   231: Financier Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud. It is revealed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history ft. FOX Business Anchor David Asman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   220: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia ft. Eric O'Neill, lawyer, cybersecurity expert, former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operative   219: US National Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice". Americans would go on to win Gold in the event ft. Mike Eurzione, former Captain of the USA Olympic Hockey Team, Director of Special Outreach for Boston University Athletics   218: Nat Turner sentenced to death for his role in inciting a slave uprising   217: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the majority of the city killing over 3,000 and causing over $350M in damages   216: Enron the largest bankruptcy in US history takes place after the energy company files for Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments: 225: Oil tanker Exxon Valdez spills roughly 240k barrels of oil after running aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound ft. Climate journalist and author, Charles Wohlforth   224: A bomb explodes at Northwestern University injuring a security guard. This would be the first Unabomber attack by Ted Kaczynski   223: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago turns violent as police clash with anti-war protesters   222: Congressman Preston Brooks beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in a Senate hallway after Senator Sumner makes an anti-slavery speech ft. FOX News Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram   221: Internet bookstore Amazon is founded by Jeff Bezos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   230: Against protests in the South, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to the White House ft. Brian Kilmeade, Co-host of Fox & Friends, Host of The Brian Kilmeade Show, Author of Teddy and Booker T.   229: Western Union is founded   228: Activist Malcolm X is assassinated in New York by members of the Nation of Islam   227: Two deadly explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Ed Davis, former Police Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and CEO of the Edward Davis Company   226: The Woodstock music festival takes place over three days in upstate New York Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   235: The Alien and Sedition Acts become U.S. law making it a crime to transmit malicious statements against the government   234: Google Inc is founded in Menlo Park, CA by Larry Page and Sergey Brin   233: Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas killing all on board ft. Former Shuttle Launch Director at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Michael Leinbach   232: In a largely party line vote the House of Representatives votes to impeach President Trump on charges of Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress   231: Gangster rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Two years later Capone would be imprisoned on tax evasion charges ft. Chicago-based historian and entertainer, Clarence Goodman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   240: Iraq War: President Obama announces an end to combat operations as the last combat troops leave Iraq   239: America Online or AOL becomes the world's most dominant online service with over 34 million subscribers ft. Chairman and CEO of Revolution and Co-Founder of AOL, Steve Case   238: Charles Dow publishes the first version of The Dow Jones Industrial Average   237: Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing. He is never found ft. FOX News Senior Correspondent and Anchor, Eric Shawn   236: Protests at Kent State University lead to shooting deaths of four students by the Ohio National Guard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments:   245: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time   244: Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller   243: The Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung on George Washington's birthday   242: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in a US Special Forces raid ft. Former CENTCOM Commander, General Frank McKenzie   241: Beatlemania begins, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hits the top of the charts as The Beatles arrive in the U.S. and appear on The Ed Sullivan Show ft. John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured moments: 250: Less than a month after his concerning debate with former President Trump, President Biden drops out of the 2024 presidential race and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris ft. Anchor of The Story and Host of The Untold Story podcast, Martha MacCallum 249: The final episode of M*A*S*H becomes the most watched television broadcast in American history 248: The Boston Subway opens becoming the first underground transit system in North America 247: One World Trade Center nicknamed The Freedom Tower rises over downtown Manhattan becoming the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere 246: Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager is the first human to break the sound barrier ft. Curator at the Smithsonian Aeronautics Department, Bob van der Linden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

History isn't just what we read in textbooks - it's the story of us, the United States. As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Bill Hemmer brings listeners compelling interviews with historians, experts, and eyewitnesses who detail the triumphs, trials, and breakthroughs that defined our nation. In order to understand where the country's heading, it's important to know where we've been. New episodes available every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices