October 17, 1945. In Buenos Aires, a large labor demonstration demands the liberation of ousted and imprisoned Vice President Juan Domingo Perón, leading to Peron’s election to the presidency and giving rise to a new populis…
October 14, 1947. US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, a feat many aviators previously believed impossible.
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we follow a group of Englishmen as they colonize the first permanent English settlement in mainland North America: Jamestown, Virginia.
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October 11, 1982. The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, rises to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent. This episode originally aired in 2023.