WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.560 Welcome to What You Didn't Hear, the podcast 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:05.620 where we dive into the overlooked stories that 00:00:05.620 --> 00:00:08.500 happened on the same days as history's biggest 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:12.080 events. While the world was watching one headline, 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.100 countless other stories quietly unfolded, some 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.739 fascinating, some tragic, and some that changed 00:00:19.739 --> 00:00:23.660 lives in ways we've never heard about. In each 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.219 episode, I'll take you beyond the front page 00:00:26.219 --> 00:00:29.019 and shine a light on the moments history forgot. 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:32.640 Because every day holds more than one story. 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:37.100 I'm Zane Gould, and let's get into what you didn't 00:00:37.100 --> 00:01:11.439 hear, until now. We are going to start August 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:16.120 20th, way back in 480 BC, with the Battle of 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.319 Thermopylae. During the Greco -Persian War, the 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.980 storm that was Xerxes' fleet made landfall in 00:01:22.980 --> 00:01:25.859 Greece in the Malayan Gulf, where they had to 00:01:25.859 --> 00:01:28.379 take the pass of Thermopylae into the mainland, 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:31.780 and were met by a coalition of various Greek 00:01:31.780 --> 00:01:36.230 forces estimated at around 7 ,000 men. The invading 00:01:36.230 --> 00:01:39.069 Persian army has been reported to number in the 00:01:39.069 --> 00:01:41.370 millions, while it should be noted that modern 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:43.870 historians place their numbers somewhere between 00:01:43.870 --> 00:01:48.090 120 ,000 to 300 ,000. Still, the difference is 00:01:48.090 --> 00:01:50.370 staggering, and the Battle of Thermopylae is 00:01:50.370 --> 00:01:53.329 a great example of the advantage one side has 00:01:53.329 --> 00:01:56.430 when it's fighting on its home turf and defending 00:01:56.430 --> 00:01:58.909 its homeland. On the third day of the battle, 00:01:59.049 --> 00:02:01.790 Xerxes' forces were shown a path around the pass 00:02:01.790 --> 00:02:04.549 of Thermopylae by a traitor named Ephelites. 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.039 and the Persians were able to outflank the defending 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:11.479 Greek forces. Aware of the oncoming onslaught, 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.319 King Leonidas of Sparta formed a rear guard with 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:19.439 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, 900 Helots, and 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:23.560 400 Thebans. Prior to the battle, the Oracle 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.060 of Delphi had predicted that either Sparta would 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:30.060 fall or King Leonidas would be slain. It is possible 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:32.360 that this prediction is what brought the Spartan 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.699 king to his decision to stay and fight to the 00:02:34.699 --> 00:02:38.259 death, while the rest of the Grecian forces successfully 00:02:38.259 --> 00:02:42.840 retreated. Jumping forward 482 years to the year 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.580 2 AD, the earliest reported conjunction of Venus 00:02:47.580 --> 00:02:50.740 and Jupiter, which is often referred to as the 00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:53.590 Star of Bethlehem. The conjunction occurs about 00:02:53.590 --> 00:02:56.590 every three years and three months, but is most 00:02:56.590 --> 00:02:59.830 easily visible when it occurs at night. If astronomy 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:01.710 interests you, I would recommend looking into 00:03:01.710 --> 00:03:04.629 the next time you can watch this event. August 00:03:04.629 --> 00:03:07.330 20th, in the year 1000, Hungary is established 00:03:07.330 --> 00:03:10.270 as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary, 00:03:10.449 --> 00:03:13.550 which is to this day celebrated as State Foundation 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:17.909 Day in Hungary. Following the siege of Acre in 00:03:17.909 --> 00:03:21.629 the year 1191, King Richard the Lionheart orders 00:03:21.629 --> 00:03:25.349 the execution of 2 ,000 Muslim prisoners in what 00:03:25.349 --> 00:03:32.129 is referred to as the Massacre at Acre. Mid -voyage 00:03:32.129 --> 00:03:36.169 on his path to circumnavigate the world in 1578, 00:03:36.629 --> 00:03:40.810 Francis Drake renames his galleon, the Pelican, 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:45.430 to the Golden Hind in honor of his patron, Sir 00:03:45.430 --> 00:03:48.340 Christopher Hatton. While the word hind is often 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:51.340 used to refer to the butt, and I personally was 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:53.439 hoping that that's what the name of the ship 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.060 was referring to, in this case it is referring 00:03:56.060 --> 00:03:58.840 to Sir Christopher Hatton's crest of a golden 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.479 female deer. I imagine the name could be taken 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.659 either way, though, for my own enjoyment. A reference 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:08.159 to the wealth of Sir Hatton that his hind quarters 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:16.720 are made of gold. In 1612 at Lancaster Castle 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.420 in England, the Lancashire Witch Trials take 00:04:20.420 --> 00:04:23.600 place where nine women and two men, known as 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.560 the Pendle Witches, were tried for charges of 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.339 murder, witchcraft, and talking to dogs, which 00:04:30.339 --> 00:04:32.819 is of course a crime. One of the women tried 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:36.000 was acquitted and the rest of the accused were 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:42.519 hanged at Lancaster Castle. In 1741, on August 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.439 20th, the first sighting of Alaska is reported 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.920 by a Russian expedition led by Danish explorer 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:53.720 Vitus Bering. This Vitus Bering is the same explorer 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.100 that the Bering Sea, Bering Island, and Bering 00:04:57.100 --> 00:04:59.600 Strait in the northern Pacific Ocean are named 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.720 after. Additionally, Vitus Bering is buried on 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:07.279 Bering Island in Russia. Vitus Bering was appointed 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.899 by the Tsar of Russia to lead an expedition to 00:05:10.899 --> 00:05:14.199 determine if the Asian continent and North American 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.879 continent were connected by land. Their voyage 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.519 across the Bering Sea departed from the Serbian 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:23.079 peninsula of Kamchatka. However, rough weather 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:26.420 kept the Russian naval officer from a good observation 00:05:26.420 --> 00:05:30.279 of the Alaskan coastline, but Vitus Bering concluded 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.449 that Serbia and America were not joined. in an 00:05:34.449 --> 00:05:37.329 attempt to return to serbia bering would suffer 00:05:37.329 --> 00:05:40.329 from a severe case of scurvy and the st paul 00:05:40.329 --> 00:05:42.750 was wrecked off the coast of bering island in 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:46.670 early november of seventeen forty one where vitus 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:50.730 would find his final resting -place shifting 00:05:50.730 --> 00:05:54.569 from russia to north america In 1781, General 00:05:54.569 --> 00:05:57.069 George Washington, accompanied by French forces 00:05:57.069 --> 00:06:01.689 under Comte de Rochambeau, began the march south 00:06:01.689 --> 00:06:04.629 to fight British General Cornwallis in Yorktown. 00:06:05.009 --> 00:06:08.209 The strategic goal of the Franco -American army 00:06:08.209 --> 00:06:12.449 of 17 ,000 marching on Yorktown was to trap General 00:06:12.449 --> 00:06:15.589 Cornwallis' troops and lay siege to the coastal 00:06:15.589 --> 00:06:18.819 city in Virginia. I have personally been to Yorktown 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:21.519 on multiple occasions, and there is an incredible 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.579 trail that you can drive along and see all the 00:06:24.579 --> 00:06:26.980 different key strategic positions for the battles 00:06:26.980 --> 00:06:29.279 that took place during the American Revolutionary 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:35.980 War. I highly recommend it. In 1858, Rudolf Virchow 00:06:35.980 --> 00:06:39.240 publishes medical text titled Cellular Pathology 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.860 in Berlin, which would establish the basis for 00:06:42.860 --> 00:06:49.230 modern medical science. In 1866, President Andrew 00:06:49.230 --> 00:06:53.230 Johnson issues Proclamation 157, declaring the 00:06:53.230 --> 00:06:56.029 insurrection of Texas over, which officially 00:06:56.029 --> 00:07:00.810 marks the end of the U .S. Civil War. On August 00:07:00.810 --> 00:07:06.490 20, 1882, Tchaikovsky debuts the 1812 Overture 00:07:06.490 --> 00:07:09.410 under a tent outside the unfinished Cathedral 00:07:09.410 --> 00:07:14.319 of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Both the Overture 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.899 and the Cathedral memorialize the Russian defense 00:07:16.899 --> 00:07:20.560 against the French invasion of 1812, led by Napoleon 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:24.980 Bonaparte. The 1812 Overture became one of Tchaikovsky's 00:07:24.980 --> 00:07:27.720 most popular works, in the ranking with his ballet 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.360 scores to The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, 00:07:31.620 --> 00:07:37.170 and Swan Lake. in december of nineteen o seven 00:07:37.170 --> 00:07:40.430 the great white fleet departs from virginia to 00:07:40.430 --> 00:07:43.269 embark on a forty three thousand mile journey 00:07:43.269 --> 00:07:45.769 that would visit six continents and make twenty 00:07:45.769 --> 00:07:49.329 port calls spanning fourteen long months at sea 00:07:49.329 --> 00:07:53.160 to showcase the strength of the u s navy On August 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.939 20th of 1908, the Great White Fleet arrives in 00:07:56.939 --> 00:08:01.300 Australia for a port call, and 221 sailors are 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:04.000 reported deserters that never return to their 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.639 ships after their port call. I myself have circumnavigated 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.180 the globe aboard a U .S. Navy ship, and modern 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:14.240 ships definitely have better amenities than a 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.720 ship from the early 1900s. But if I can add my 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:20.199 own opinion to a piece of history, being out 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.560 to sea for long spans of time is never easy, 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:25.600 and often you do not realize how hard it is until 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:32.090 your port call. In 1913, Adolph Pagode is the 00:08:32.090 --> 00:08:34.950 first pilot to parachute from an aircraft using 00:08:34.950 --> 00:08:37.950 a sacrificial aircraft. As he descended with 00:08:37.950 --> 00:08:40.370 his parachute, he watched as his plane pitched 00:08:40.370 --> 00:08:43.330 upward and performed a loop before plummeting 00:08:43.330 --> 00:08:46.149 to the ground. Once on the ground, he told reporters, 00:08:46.370 --> 00:08:49.549 I have seen it alone, looping the loop, so you 00:08:49.549 --> 00:08:53.120 see that this is possible and I will try. In 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.360 September of the same year, Pagode would successfully 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.399 perform the loop and was believed to be the first 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:02.919 pilot to accomplish this. However, Pyotr Nesterov 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:06.620 had performed an aerobatic loop nine days prior. 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.279 Two years later, while intercepting a German 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:13.500 reconnaissance aircraft during World War I, Pagode 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:15.679 would be shot down and killed by a German pilot 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.629 who he himself had trained, Otto Kandolsky. Once 00:09:20.629 --> 00:09:23.409 word of who the pilot was that had been shot 00:09:23.409 --> 00:09:26.450 down, the German aviators dropped a funeral wreath 00:09:26.450 --> 00:09:28.669 behind the French line to pay their respects 00:09:28.669 --> 00:09:34.769 for the French pilot. 1975, Viking 1 launches 00:09:34.769 --> 00:09:37.450 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to begin 00:09:37.450 --> 00:09:41.309 its half billion mile voyage to Mars, where it 00:09:41.309 --> 00:09:44.210 would orbit the alien world. And sticking with 00:09:44.210 --> 00:09:47.029 the theme of voyages, mounted atop the Titan 00:09:47.029 --> 00:09:50.789 Centaur 7 launch vehicle, Voyager 2 launches 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:56.049 on the same day in 1977. Voyager 2's mission 00:09:56.049 --> 00:10:00.169 was to pass by first the gas giants Jupiter and 00:10:00.169 --> 00:10:03.350 Saturn, then the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. 00:10:03.889 --> 00:10:07.590 Passing by Uranus, Voyager 2 discovered ten new 00:10:07.590 --> 00:10:12.080 moons and two new rings. As Voyager 2 passed 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.779 by Neptune, it found five new moons, including 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:18.519 Triton, with evidence of volcanic activity on 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.710 Neptune's satellite. In 2018, Voyager 2 would 00:10:22.710 --> 00:10:26.529 join Voyager 1 in interstellar space, exploring 00:10:26.529 --> 00:10:29.950 out beyond our solar system at a speed of 34 00:10:29.950 --> 00:10:35.909 ,391 miles per hour, or 15 kilometers per second. 00:10:36.149 --> 00:10:38.929 The Voyager mission is ongoing, with both spacecraft 00:10:38.929 --> 00:10:41.490 still sending back data about the conditions 00:10:41.490 --> 00:10:45.659 of deep space. And to end this incredible day 00:10:45.659 --> 00:10:49.980 in history, in 1991 Japan, Naoko Takeuchi first 00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:52.639 publishes what would become one of the most popular 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.059 mangas, Japanese graphic novels and comics, of 00:10:56.059 --> 00:11:00.019 all time. Codename Sailor V, which would later 00:11:00.019 --> 00:11:03.980 that year be adapted to Sailor Moon in the Nakayoshi 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:09.250 Manga Magazine from 1991 to 1997. The Sailor 00:11:09.250 --> 00:11:11.789 Moon anime series would begin the following year 00:11:11.789 --> 00:11:14.529 in Japan and would release in the United States 00:11:14.529 --> 00:11:22.409 in 1995. And now it's time for Blind Date Through 00:11:22.409 --> 00:11:25.470 Time, the only dating show where our contestant, 00:11:25.490 --> 00:11:29.350 you, flirts with mystery and history to find 00:11:29.350 --> 00:11:46.840 a timeless connection. Here is this week's mysterious 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.580 profile. Age, 19. Location, somewhere between 00:11:52.580 --> 00:11:55.899 the battlefield and the heavens. Height, petite, 00:11:56.259 --> 00:11:59.820 but don't underestimate me. Occupation, warrior, 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:03.820 visionary, occasional saint. Some say I hear 00:12:03.820 --> 00:12:07.139 voices, others say I hear destiny. I come from 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:10.039 a small village, but I don't think small. I led 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.100 armies before I could legally drink mead. I'm 00:12:13.100 --> 00:12:16.039 guided by visions, driven by purpose, and unafraid 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.960 to challenge the world or anyone who underestimates 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.120 me. I've been burned before, literally. But like 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.620 any good mystery, I came back stronger in spirit. 00:12:26.179 --> 00:12:29.340 I'm not here for games, unless they involve prophecy, 00:12:29.620 --> 00:12:32.759 strategy, or medieval intrigue. If you have a 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.000 guess of who this week's mystery profile is, 00:12:35.179 --> 00:12:43.590 leave it in the comments below. Okay, that's 00:12:43.590 --> 00:12:46.389 all I had for today. If you liked this episode, 00:12:46.590 --> 00:12:49.210 please leave a review or comment, like, subscribe, 00:12:49.389 --> 00:12:52.669 and tune in next time for What You Didn't Hear.