21.8.1959: Hawaii wird 50. US-Bundesstaa...

Jahrhunderte war die Tollwut für viele Menschen das personifizierte Böse - am 6. Juli 1885 gelang es dem französischen Wissenschaftler Louis Pasteur erstmals erfolgreich ein Mittel gegen den Ausbruch der Krankheit einzusetzen. 

Schnell hatte Propagandaminister Goebbels das Potenzial des jungen Mediums Rundfunk erkannt: "Der Rundfunk gehört uns, niemandem sonst. Und den Rundfunk werden wir in den Dienst unserer Idee stellen, und keine andere Idee soll hier zu Wort kommen." 

Von der Kritik kontrovers diskutiert, bleibt die Faszination der Leser für Hermann Hesse bis heute ungebrochen: Der Autor wird am 2. Juli 1877 im Schwarzwald-Städtchen Calw geboren. 

The death toll from wildfires in Hawaii rose to at least 80, making this the deadliest natural disaster since the archipelago became an American state in 1959. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

The death toll from wildfires in Hawaii rose to at least 89, in the deadliest natural disaster since the archipelago became an American state in 1959. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise strike on the American naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. Thousands of American servicemen were killed or injured in the attack, which severely damaged the US Pacific Fleet. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on ... Show More

Would you believe me if I told you Hawaii was stolen? Well yeah of course, hi this is Dark History. But would you also believe me if I told you, the US fully fessed up to taking the islands illegally and the International community has acknowledged Hawaii is it’s own country? Bec ... Show More

Le 7 décembre 1941, sans déclaration de guerre, le Japon lance une attaque aéronavale contre la flotte américaine du Pacifique basée à Pearl Harbor dans l’archipel des îles Hawaï. Son but : empêcher les Américains de contrecarrer la politique expansionniste du Japon en Asie du Su ... Show More

Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory in 1898 and for much of the next fifty years Puerto Ricans fought fiercely about this status. Should they struggle for independence, or to be a U.S. state, or something in between? In this episode, we look at Puerto Rico's relationship with the ... Show More

7th December 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States of America into the Second World War. On the morning of 7th December 1941, just before 8am the Japanese launched their attack on the US naval base of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu ... Show More

By longstanding listener request, we look at how Hawaii was basically stolen by the United States in the 19th century. Rather than reverse this bit of geopolitical fraud, the US ended up making Hawaii a state instead. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastn ... Show More

Born in 1838, Lili'uokalani became the queen of Hawaii in 1891. Unfortunately, she was destined to be Hawaii's last monarch. Listen in and learn how Hawaii became a state in this podcast. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/l ... Show More

The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, also the 1940s Indian radio station calling for independence. We'll look at life as a 'human shield' in Iraq under Saddam, the man who invented the term 'genocide' and why, and the messy dipl ... Show More