THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

THE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS

Episode 114 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on February 18th, 2003 — the morning a 56-year-old man with two milk cartons of flammable liquid set fire to a subway car in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people as the smoke from burning synthetic interiors trapped passengers in a second train whose doors had locked shut in an underground station with no ventilation. 192 people went to work on a Tuesday morning. The fire took two minutes. #HistoryMystery #DaeguSubwayFire #SouthKorea #Disaster #HistoryPodcast

THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

Episode 113 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 10th and 11th, 1996 — the single deadliest 24 hours in Everest history, when a turnaround time wasn't enforced, a storm arrived ahead of schedule, and eight climbers died including both expedition leaders, among them Rob Hall who made his last call to his pregnant wife by satellite phone from just below the summit. "Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." #HistoryMystery #Everest1996 #MountEverest #Adventure #HistoryPodcast

THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT: FORTY YEARS OF DELIBERATE HARM

Episode 112 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tuskegee Study — the US Public Health Service program that enrolled 600 Black men in rural Alabama in 1932, told them they were being treated for bad blood, withheld penicillin after it became the standard cure in 1947, and continued for 40 years until a whistleblower went to the press. Every researcher on this study had a medical degree. Every one had taken an oath to do no harm. #HistoryMystery #TuskegeeExperiment #MedicalHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR

Episode 111 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Mincemeat — the 1943 British intelligence operation in which a dead Welsh vagrant was given a fabricated military identity, chained to a briefcase of fake invasion plans, and floated ashore in Spain, fooling Hitler into moving his forces away from Sicily before the largest Allied amphibious landing of the war. The idea was first sketched by Ian Fleming. The man who made it possible died alone and homeless in London. #HistoryMystery #OperationMincemeat #WorldWarII #BritishIntelligence #HistoryPodcast

BHOPAL: THE WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER IN HISTORY

Episode 110 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on December 3rd, 1984 — the night a Union Carbide pesticide plant in central India leaked 40 tons of methyl isocyanate into a sleeping city, killing thousands before dawn, leaving half a million people permanently damaged, and producing a CEO who flew to the scene, was arrested, flew home, and died in Florida in 2014 having never faced trial. The site has never been cleaned. The people of Bhopal are still living with it. #HistoryMystery #BhopalDisaster #UnionCarbide #IndustrialDisaster #HistoryPodcast