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Story of Writing October 29, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1029
The opera "Don Giovanni" premiers in Prague, the International Red Cross is voted into existence, and it is "Black Tuesday" - the stock market crash …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 28, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1028
It's a big day for colleges in the new world, Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels," and the birthday club includes Evelyn Waugh, Virginia He…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 27, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1027
The Missouri Governor signed an order to exterminate mormons, a Soviet naval officer refuses to launch a nuclear torpedo, and it's the birthday of Sy…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 26, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1026
Wyatt Earp was part of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, Ida B. Wells publishes her pamphlet "Southern Horrors," and Hilary Clinton and Marisha Pessl ce…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 25, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1025
The Light Brigade charges the wrong guns, the Zinoviev letter is published in the UK, and birthdays included Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Anne Tyler, Zadi…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 24, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1024
A transcontinental telegraph line begins operations, the first person to actually survive the plunge goes over Niagara Falls, about 90 percent of Ice…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 23, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1023
The first national convention on Women’s Rights begins in Massachusetts and the birthday club includes Ellie Greenwich and Michael Crichton - with a …
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 22, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1022
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins, Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the birthday club includes Doris Lessing, Timothy Leary…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 21, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1021
Thomas Edison applies for a patent for the electric light bulb, Ernest Hemingway publishes his classic novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and the birth…
7 months ago
Story of Writing October 20, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1020
The U.S. approves the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. and UK set the modern border of Canada, and the U.N. tries to promote cultural expression as a cou…
7 months, 1 week ago