Today in History (Intermediate)

Fatima Jinnah’s birth, the end of the Malayan Emergency, and unity for African women.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsnickname: an informal or fun name given to a personguerrilla fighters: an unofficial military group which fights against the government or official armyto empower: to encourage someone or give them the means to do somethingThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...Content warning: violence

A soccer first, Julia Tsenova’s birth, and a deadly student protest in San Salvador.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordscontemporary: moderndemonstration: people coming together to show their feelings for a person or causepeaceful: without violencerepressive: controlling people by forcedictatorship: a government ruled by a single leader with total power over the countryThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio... Content warning: violence

The death of Vincent van Gogh, and the birth of Indian businessperson J.R.D. Tata.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsglobal enterprise: a company that operates around the worldpost-Impressionist: an artist of the Post-Impressionism movement, which focused on emotion rather than realismThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...

Albert Namatjira and Fahmida Riaz are born, and a deadly earthquake hits Tangshan.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordscitizenship: the status of being recognized as a citizen – a member of a country who has rightsFirst Nations: people who were the first to live in a countryliberal: open to new ideasexile: when someone is forced to leave their countryThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...Content warning: violence

The births of human rights activist Gisèle Halimi and Malaysia’s first astronaut.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsabortion: the ending of a pregnancy so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a childsurgeon: a doctor who is specially trained to perform medical operationsThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...

The birth of Erskine Hawkins, Barbadian labor rebellion, and the No Gun Ri massacre.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsreform: a type of change which improves thingslabor: relating to work or workersrefugee: a person who is forced to leave their country because of violence or warmassacre: a painful word for the murder of many peopleThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio... Content warning: violence

A female cosmonaut, India’s first female president, and activist Askarov’s death.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordscosmonaut: a Russian person who is trained to travel into spaceagricultural: something relating to or used in farmingto deny: to not allow someone to have or do somethingThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio... Content warning: violence

Simón Bolívar’s birth, the Treaty of Lausanne, and the new Gay Liberation Front.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordstreaty: an official agreement or deal between countriesto address something: to think about and begin to deal with somethingto pave the way for something: to make it easier for something to happenLGBTQIA+: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other identitiesThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...

The Egyptian king is overthrown, Elio Revé dies, and Milošević becomes president.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsoccupation: the control of an area by a foreign powerto step down: to leave a positioncharged: accused of doing something by lawcomposer: someone who writes musicpercussion: all instruments that you play by hitting them with your hand or a stick, like a drumThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...

The birth of Emma Lazarus, Pan Yuliang’s death, and same-sex marriage in Argentina.Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected] wordsrenowned: famousnude: naked, without clothingself-portrait: an image the artist makes of themselvesThese events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: https://player.timelinenotatio...