July 8, 1898. Notorious confidence man Jefferson “Soapy” Smith is killed in a gunfight with a vigilante in the Alaskan boomtown of Skagway.

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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we set sail on the Franklin Expedition of 1845 with the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, two ships that find themselves trapped in ice and fall victims to the frozen sea.

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July 5, 1954. Elvis Presley records his first single "That's All Right" at Sun Records in Memphis, introducing rock n’ roll to mainstream American culture. This episode originally aired in 2022.

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July 4, 1862. An Oxford professor takes a boat ride and tells a fantastical story that he’ll eventually publish under his pen name, Lewis Carroll.

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July 3, 2013. Egypt’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, is ousted from his office by the country’s formidable military. This episode originally aired in 2023.

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July 2, 1839: Enslaved Africans rise up against their owners and take control of the slave ship Amistad.

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July 1, 1885. King Leopold II of Belgium founds the Congo Free State and installs a regime that will become infamous for its brutality.

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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we try to survive the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE in a choose-your-own-adventure style podcast.

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