WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:03.259 Hello, and welcome to What You Didn't Hear, the 00:00:03.259 --> 00:00:05.919 podcast where we dig through history's junk drawer 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.500 to find the weird, wild, and wonderful events 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:11.800 that got completely overshadowed by something 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:14.939 louder and flashier. Sure, everyone remembers 00:00:14.939 --> 00:00:17.800 the moon landing, but did you know someone also 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.699 patented the first self -filling dog bowl that 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:23.579 same day? No? Well, that's what we're here for. 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:26.000 Because while the world was busy watching the 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.460 big stuff, plenty of other strange and fascinating 00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:30.870 things were happening. They just didn't make 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:33.990 the front page. Now let's get into what you didn't 00:00:33.990 --> 00:01:00.329 hear. I wanted to start this episode with a little 00:01:00.329 --> 00:01:02.530 bit of house cleaning now that we're on the third 00:01:02.530 --> 00:01:05.370 episode of What You Didn't Hear. If you're just 00:01:05.370 --> 00:01:08.030 finding my baby podcast, welcome, and I hope 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:10.409 you stick around for some fun bestorical factoids. 00:01:10.769 --> 00:01:12.890 My intention is to keep these episodes between 00:01:12.890 --> 00:01:15.849 10 and 15 minutes long. However, I am compiling 00:01:15.849 --> 00:01:18.670 a list of topics that sound, let's say, more 00:01:18.670 --> 00:01:21.129 interesting to me. I will dedicate a whole episode 00:01:21.129 --> 00:01:23.930 to these topics to dive deeper into their details. 00:01:24.269 --> 00:01:26.209 I would imagine those episodes would be a bit 00:01:26.209 --> 00:01:28.510 longer of a presentation, but I still need to 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:30.829 come up with a standard format of details for 00:01:30.829 --> 00:01:32.930 those episodes. 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While 00:01:59.739 --> 00:02:02.340 September 3rd marks the official end of the American 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:06.659 Revolutionary War in 1783, I think what you didn't 00:02:06.659 --> 00:02:09.080 hear about September 3rd throughout history will 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.340 also pique your interest. Kicking off in the 00:02:12.340 --> 00:02:15.580 year 301, San Marino is founded by St. Marinus. 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.840 San Marino is known as one of the smallest nations 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.900 in the world at 23 .6 square miles and is the 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:28.039 oldest republic still in existence. Pope Gregory 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:34.699 I, Bishop of Rome, becomes the Pope in 590. In 00:02:34.699 --> 00:02:37.900 1189, Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:40.659 England, immediately following his coronation. 00:02:40.729 --> 00:02:43.110 False rumors spread that Richard the Lionheart 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:45.729 had called for the Jews to be killed, and angry 00:02:45.729 --> 00:02:47.909 mobs burnt down many homes within the Jewish 00:02:47.909 --> 00:02:50.990 community of York, and murdered around 30 Jewish 00:02:50.990 --> 00:02:53.490 people. King Richard ordered that the Jews of 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:56.210 England be protected. This, however, did not 00:02:56.210 --> 00:02:58.969 end the antisemitic search, and more Jews would 00:02:58.969 --> 00:03:05.129 be targeted in the following years. Now let's 00:03:05.129 --> 00:03:08.610 hop forward several hundred years to 1650, when 00:03:08.610 --> 00:03:11.270 the English army under Oliver Cromwell defeated 00:03:11.270 --> 00:03:14.009 a Scottish force in a surprise attack at the 00:03:14.009 --> 00:03:16.490 Battle of Dunbar. The Battle of Dunbar was the 00:03:16.490 --> 00:03:19.810 first major battle of the 1650 invasion of Scotland, 00:03:20.310 --> 00:03:23.069 which was sparked by Scotland's acceptance of 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.449 Charles II as King of Britain following the beheading 00:03:26.449 --> 00:03:31.330 of his father, Charles I, the year before. On 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:34.629 the same day, just eight years later, Oliver 00:03:34.629 --> 00:03:37.430 Cromwell's son, Richard Cromwell, also known 00:03:37.430 --> 00:03:40.830 as Tumbledown Dick, fun bestorical factoid, would 00:03:40.830 --> 00:03:43.969 succeed his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. 00:03:46.069 --> 00:03:49.610 In 1683, on September 3rd, Turkish forces would 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:52.090 break the defenses of Vienna and enter the city. 00:03:52.349 --> 00:03:55.150 However, before gaining complete control of the 00:03:55.150 --> 00:03:57.789 city, a large European relief army would break 00:03:57.789 --> 00:04:01.129 the siege efforts and the Holy League, a coalition 00:04:01.129 --> 00:04:03.830 cavalry, broke the Ottoman ranks, and forced 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:06.569 their retreat. This defeat at Vienna triggered 00:04:06.569 --> 00:04:12.949 the end of Ottoman dominance in the region. In 00:04:12.949 --> 00:04:16.649 1697, the Treaty of Reiswick is signed, ending 00:04:16.649 --> 00:04:19.149 King William's War in America between France 00:04:19.149 --> 00:04:21.350 and the Grand Alliance, which was comprised of 00:04:21.350 --> 00:04:23.589 England, the Dutch Republic, and the Habsburg 00:04:23.589 --> 00:04:29.370 Monarchy. In 1709, the first major group of Swiss 00:04:29.370 --> 00:04:32.829 -German colonists reached North and South Carolina. 00:04:33.110 --> 00:04:35.990 Led by Swiss nobleman Christoph von Grafenried, 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:39.329 the Swiss German settlers would found New Bern, 00:04:39.610 --> 00:04:42.050 North Carolina, named after von Grafenried's 00:04:42.050 --> 00:04:50.220 hometown, Bern, Switzerland. In 1752, a great 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:52.519 scandal occurred when Britain and the British 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.360 Empire, to include the American colonies, would 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.899 adopt the Gregorian calendar. This would cause 00:04:57.899 --> 00:05:00.339 the loss of 11 days in the month of September. 00:05:00.819 --> 00:05:03.920 Civil unrest boiled over and led to the calendar 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:06.720 riots, where the people were convinced that 11 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.029 days of their lives had been stolen. It should 00:05:10.029 --> 00:05:12.430 be noted that there is no official record of 00:05:12.430 --> 00:05:14.970 these riots, and it has been speculated that 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:17.810 the reports of the riots may have been satirical 00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:20.629 commentary on the public's opposition to the 00:05:20.629 --> 00:05:23.329 adoption of the Romani calendar named for Pope 00:05:23.329 --> 00:05:26.850 Gregory XIII. It's also very likely that this 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:29.730 did occur in some fashion or another. What is 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:32.889 clear is that many people were very displeased 00:05:32.889 --> 00:05:38.290 with the loss of 11 days. A significant event 00:05:38.290 --> 00:05:42.089 in US history occurs on September 3, in 1777, 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:44.990 when the flag of the United States is flown in 00:05:44.990 --> 00:05:47.089 battle for the first time at Couches Bridge, 00:05:47.110 --> 00:05:54.509 Delaware. In 1791, the French Constitution is 00:05:54.509 --> 00:05:57.069 passed by National Assembly, declaring France 00:05:57.069 --> 00:06:05.589 as a constitutional monarchy. In 1812, the world's 00:06:05.589 --> 00:06:07.949 first cannery is opened in England to supply 00:06:07.949 --> 00:06:11.410 food to the Royal Navy and the Royal Army. I'll 00:06:11.410 --> 00:06:13.470 leave this one at this, but I intend to dedicate 00:06:13.470 --> 00:06:16.329 a full episode to this topic. Canned food sounds 00:06:16.329 --> 00:06:18.730 boring on the surface, but if you're a fan of 00:06:18.730 --> 00:06:21.170 bestorical factoids, there is a lot of detail 00:06:21.170 --> 00:06:28.029 behind the first cannery. On September 3rd, 1826, 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.779 The USS Vincennes, a Boston class sloop of war, 00:06:32.139 --> 00:06:34.720 would depart from New York to embark on its voyage 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.319 to become the first warship to circumnavigate 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.439 the globe. Ship chaplain Charles Samuel Stewart 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.560 published a book about the voyage titled A Visit 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.680 to the South Seas. After almost four years, the 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.959 ship would return to its birth in New York and 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.480 two days later was decommissioned for repairs. 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:00.579 In 1838, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 00:07:00.579 --> 00:07:03.839 escaped slavery disguised as a sailor using a 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.360 sailor's uniform and a protection pass identifying 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.459 him as a free sailor. He learned to speak like 00:07:09.459 --> 00:07:11.879 an experienced sailor from his work in the Baltimore 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.439 shipyard, which aided in his escape efforts. 00:07:15.430 --> 00:07:18.529 After escaping Frederick Bailey would read a 00:07:18.529 --> 00:07:21.589 poem by Sir Walter Scott titled The Lady of the 00:07:21.589 --> 00:07:24.569 Lake and change his name to Frederick Douglass 00:07:24.569 --> 00:07:27.750 as a symbol of his new life as a free man and 00:07:27.750 --> 00:07:31.009 as a protection against slave catchers. Frederick 00:07:31.009 --> 00:07:33.750 Douglass would go on to become a highly important 00:07:33.750 --> 00:07:36.629 figure in the abolitionist movement and the civil 00:07:36.629 --> 00:07:42.389 rights movement of the 19th century. In 1878 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.800 tragedy falls on a British passenger paddle steamer. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.360 The Princess Alice collides with the Biwell Castle 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.899 in the River Thames and is sunk, claiming 645 00:07:51.899 --> 00:07:55.079 souls and marking the worst inland water accident 00:07:55.079 --> 00:08:02.060 in English history. Jesse James Ging robs the 00:08:02.060 --> 00:08:05.800 Mammoth Cave stagecoach in Kentucky in 1880. 00:08:08.099 --> 00:08:11.600 US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Adamson 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.939 Act in 1916, providing an eight -hour day on 00:08:15.939 --> 00:08:18.740 the interstate railroads and avoids a national 00:08:18.740 --> 00:08:24.540 railroad strike. In 1935, British racer Malcolm 00:08:24.540 --> 00:08:27.439 Campbell breaks 300 miles per hour in the Bluebird. 00:08:27.899 --> 00:08:30.279 The Bluebird was the first automobile to exceed 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.539 300 miles per hour at 301 .129 miles per hour. 00:08:36.330 --> 00:08:38.610 This was accomplished on the Bonneville Salt 00:08:38.610 --> 00:08:42.090 Flats in Utah. I was not able to find videos 00:08:42.090 --> 00:08:44.230 of the Bonneville Salt Flats, however, there 00:08:44.230 --> 00:08:46.509 is footage of Campbell breaking this record in 00:08:46.509 --> 00:08:54.350 the Bluebird at Daytona Beach. In 1939, German 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:57.370 submarine U -30 sinks British passenger ship 00:08:57.370 --> 00:09:01.210 SS Athena. 117 civilians are killed, including 00:09:01.210 --> 00:09:04.730 28 Americans, and hours later, Britain declares 00:09:04.730 --> 00:09:10.970 war on Germany. Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, 00:09:10.970 --> 00:09:14.750 France from German occupation in 1944. French 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:18.230 troops liberate Lyon. Holocaust diarist Anne 00:09:18.230 --> 00:09:21.850 Frank is put on the 68th and last transport train 00:09:21.850 --> 00:09:24.529 to Auschwitz concentration camp after hiding 00:09:24.529 --> 00:09:29.429 in an attic in Amsterdam for 761 days. And still 00:09:29.429 --> 00:09:32.850 in the year 1944, a British tank division frees 00:09:32.850 --> 00:09:43.610 Brussels. On September 3rd, 1964, Robert F. Kennedy 00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:46.809 resigns as U .S. Attorney General after the assassination 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:49.889 of his brother and U .S. President. He ran for 00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:52.990 Senate from New York and won. However, during 00:09:52.990 --> 00:09:55.970 his bid for the presidential primaries in 1968, 00:09:56.570 --> 00:10:00.389 RFK was assassinated by Saran B. Saran, a Palestinian 00:10:00.389 --> 00:10:03.830 living in California. Saran stated that he killed 00:10:03.830 --> 00:10:06.309 Kennedy in retaliation for statements made in 00:10:06.309 --> 00:10:10.269 support of military aid to Israel. The RFK assassination 00:10:10.269 --> 00:10:13.269 is also host to many conspiracy theories just 00:10:13.269 --> 00:10:16.149 like the JFK assassination. However, this is 00:10:16.149 --> 00:10:19.269 not a conspiracy podcast. There are lots of those, 00:10:19.450 --> 00:10:21.129 and none of them are complete without an episode 00:10:21.129 --> 00:10:25.070 dedicated to JFK and or RFK. So I won't be going 00:10:25.070 --> 00:10:32.509 down that road. In 1966, Sunshine Superman by 00:10:32.509 --> 00:10:36.870 Donovan hits number one. The following year, 00:10:37.149 --> 00:10:39.529 Sweden officially switches to driving on the 00:10:39.529 --> 00:10:41.909 correct side of the road, being the right -hand 00:10:41.909 --> 00:10:46.450 side. In 1972, American swimmer Keena Rothhammer 00:10:46.450 --> 00:10:49.809 sets the 800 meter swim record of 8 minutes and 00:10:49.809 --> 00:10:54.690 53 .68 seconds, beating Australian Shane Gould's 00:10:54.690 --> 00:10:59.320 previous record during the Munich Olympics. Four 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.399 years later in 1976, on September 3rd, Viking 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.919 2 successfully lands on Mars, sending the first 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.799 color photos of Mars' surface back to Earth. 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:14.100 In 1981, the longest MLB game in Fenway Park 00:11:14.100 --> 00:11:18.039 history is suspended after 19 innings. The Seattle 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.559 Mariners and the Boston Red Sox both deadlocked 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.799 at 7 points. The following day, the Mariners 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:30.710 win 8 -7 in the 20th inning. And finally, in 00:11:30.710 --> 00:11:37.850 1995, eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar. And 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:40.750 now it's time for Blind Date Through Time, the 00:11:40.750 --> 00:11:43.649 only dating show where our contestant, you, flirts 00:11:43.649 --> 00:11:46.889 with mystery and history to find a timeless connection. 00:12:02.470 --> 00:12:07.090 Here's this week's mysterious profile. Age. Twenty 00:12:07.090 --> 00:12:10.429 -something, though time is not always kind. Location. 00:12:10.710 --> 00:12:13.070 A city of gold and stone caught between heaven 00:12:13.070 --> 00:12:17.330 and earth. Occupation. King. Tactician. Reluctant 00:12:17.330 --> 00:12:20.769 symbol. About me. They call me the Leper King, 00:12:21.330 --> 00:12:24.070 but titles reveal only part of the man. Behind 00:12:24.070 --> 00:12:27.529 the veil is a mind sharper than a blade, a heart 00:12:27.529 --> 00:12:30.909 both fierce and fragile. I stand between empires, 00:12:31.129 --> 00:12:33.450 commanding armies though my body betrays me. 00:12:33.669 --> 00:12:36.889 Strength is not always flesh. It is vision, will, 00:12:37.169 --> 00:12:39.990 and the courage to endure. Strengths. Brilliant 00:12:39.990 --> 00:12:43.250 strategist. Proven in battle despite the odds. 00:12:43.789 --> 00:12:46.470 Fierce protector of what I love. Can keep my 00:12:46.470 --> 00:12:48.330 composure when the world thinks I've already 00:12:48.330 --> 00:12:52.210 lost. I know how to turn tragedy into legacy. 00:12:52.610 --> 00:12:55.909 Fun fact. Though illness grips my body, it has 00:12:55.909 --> 00:12:59.250 never ruled my soul. Or my kingdom. If you have 00:12:59.250 --> 00:13:01.669 a guess for who this week's mystery profile is, 00:13:01.789 --> 00:13:04.009 connect with me on YouTube or Instagram and leave 00:13:04.009 --> 00:13:14.129 it in the comments. 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