Talkin’ History with Kev

09/03/2023

This Day in History…

March 9th, 1964: The first Ford Mustang comes out of production. This car became one of the most popular sports cars in history, and it remains in that category to this day.

08/03/2023

This Day in History…

March 8th, 1917: The February Revolution in Russia (Russia used the Julian Calendar back then, so it was still February) takes down over 300 years of Romanov rule, as Czar Nicholas II abdicates. The Provisional Government takes over, but is taken down by Lenin and his Bolsheviks in October. These events cause a chain of events that trigger the Russian Civil War, and in turn the creation of the Soviet Union just a few years later, but more on that another time.

07/03/2023

This Day in History…

March 7th, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell gets a patent for his telephone. The phone would become the principal method of communication for the foreseeable future, leading to more doors of communication being opened in the 21st Century, but more on that another time.

06/03/2023

This Day in History…

March 5th, 1953: Joseph Stalin, longtime leader of the Soviet Union, dies. Responsible for the deaths of millions, he was the most ruthless of all Soviet Premiers, and he was perhaps one of the most effective dictators when it came to controlling the truth. His forces conquered Berlin, bringing World War II to an end after Adolf Hitler’s death. A whole episode on Stalin in the future, perhaps.

27/02/2023

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24/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 24th, 2022: Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine after Vladimir Putin declares “A special military operation” and just a day after he declared the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in the Donbas Region independent from Ukraine. This had serious historical causes as well as serious consequences, more on this in a video coming within the next few days.

22/02/2023

Check out this awesome article by Sports History Weekly about the “Miracle On Ice”, a stunning U.S. Hockey upset over the Soviet Union which occurred this day in 1980!

Mike Eruzione, a gold medal winner for the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team, was center stage in the most significant team-sporting event of the 20th Century.

22/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 22nd, 1997: Dolly the Sheep becomes the first clone of an adult animal after scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh work to create the world’s first cloned mammal. This opened up a realm of possibilities that is still being explored by scientists and geneticists in the present day.

From: britannica.com

20/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 20th, 1962: John Glenn becomes the first American in space, orbiting Earth 3 times in 5 hours, going at speeds of around 17,000 miles per hour. This was a key moment in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the Soviets were the first to put a man into space (Yuri Gagarin). The next stop was the moon, which would come in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin setting foot on it, but more on that another time.

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019

20/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 19th, 1945: Allied Forces invade Iwo Jima, a stepping stone toward the Japanese home islands. Some of the most ferocious fighting of World War II happened during the Battle of Iwo Jima, and it was only a matter of time before the allies would force Japan to surrender.

From: Britannica.com

18/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 18th, 1885: Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was one of the most famous authors of the Nineteenth Century, and he published many noteworthy books portraying the America of the time in a humorous way such as Huck Finn and ”The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” amongst others.

Additional Information From: The History Channel

17/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 17th, 1863: The Red Cross is form by Henry Dunant as the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded amidst the Italian War for Independence. The organization would prove to be vital in numerous wars and is a major organization in disaster relief to this day.

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019.

16/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 16th, 1959: Fidel Castro is officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, not too long after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista’s regime. Castro’s communist presence in Cuba would lead to the scary days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that is considered to be the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war, but that’s a story for another day.

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019.

15/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 15th, 1898: U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, Cuba. Though we don’t know to this day what caused the explosion, the American press blamed it on Spain, setting off a wave of outrage and other events that led to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
Famous Phrase: “Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!”

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019.

14/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 14th, 1779: Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy dies after being assaulted by Native Hawaiians as a result of a theft involving one of Cook’s men. After a career of world-renowned exploration and naval service, he is still regarded as one of the greatest explorers in history.

From:

On This Day In History: anniversaries, birthdays, major events, and time capsules. This day's facts in the arts, politics, and sciences.

14/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 13th, 1945: Allied firebombing raids begin on the German city of Dresden. It killed around 25,000 people and in the opinion of many didn’t do much but reduce the city to rubble, as N**i Germany stood no chance against the Western Allies and the Soviet Union closing in around them.

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12/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 12th, 2002: The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic begins at The Hague in the Netherlands, as he is charged with war crimes during Yugoslavia’s time of civil unrest. He is mostly remembered for his ethnic cleansing campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a region of Serbia that was once autonomous. He is remembered as the “Butcher of the Balkans”.

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11/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 11th, 1975: Margaret Thatcher is elected leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, taking Edward Heath’s place at a time when Labour was still in power. She was elected as the UK’s first woman Prime Minister 4 years later in 1979.

From:

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts.

10/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 10th, 1763: The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Seven Years’ War across Europe, Asia and North America, with the latter theater being known to us as the French and Indian War. An era of high taxes by the British on their colonies ensued, culminating in the American Revolutionary War just 12 years later.

From: https://www.britannica.com

On This Day In History: anniversaries, birthdays, major events, and time capsules. This day's facts in the arts, politics, and sciences.

09/02/2023

This Day in History…

February 9th, 1950: The McCarthy Communist hunts (McCarthyism) began when U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy declared that he had a list of 200 “known communists” working in the United States State Department as he gave a speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, WV. This helped support Americans’ fear of communism in that early period of the Cold War, and it did culminate in trials accusing people of espionage and Un-American activities, investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). More on this in another This Day in History…

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019.

08/02/2023

This Day In History…

February 8th, 1950: In East Germany, a secret intelligence/police force that we now know as the Stasi is formed. They were responsible for espionage and imprisonment of East German citizens who were not sympathetic to the Communist Party from this date until the crumbling of the Eastern Bloc in 1989/1990.

From: Daley, Jim. The Book of This Day in History. Morton Grove, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2019.

07/02/2023

NEW SERIES ALERT: Each Day We Will Now Post Something That Happened on A Given Day in History, along with reviving our video series!

On this day in history…

February 7th, 1964: The Beatles arrive in New York on Pan-Am Yankee Clipper flight 101, and the era known as “Beatlemania” begins the First British Invasion of musicians.

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11/11/2022

What does Ukraine mean to Russia? A Brief Overview of Ukraine’s and Russia’s Shared History

09/09/2022

The Deaths of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and British Queen Elizabeth II- Backgrounds and What they mean to us

23/08/2022

We are now accepting research requests! If there’s anything you would like to know more about or something you’d like explained in more detail, please leave a comment below. I’d be more than happy to include it in a video!

10/08/2022

A Talk On “1980’s Pop Culture and the Cold War”.

08/08/2022

Ok guys, I’m back (hopefully). Starting this week, we’ll be having at least one video per week with some cool history lessons and talks that you won’t want to miss! Stay tuned!

30/03/2022

Here’s what’s going on guys!!!

13/03/2022

Well… Let’s Talk Since Y’all Probably Have Some Questions!

12/03/2022

We’ve got ourselves a new identity guys. For all of you who supported me through my hunting and fishing videos, I thank all of you. Now, with this new theme, I hope to share my knowledge of history and social studies throughout my social media platforms. 🤓🤓🤓