25 Historical Events You Didn't Know About

[@list25]

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[@chriscroff7929]

Got my book today can't wait to start reading. This is my favorite you tube channel

[@Althea-dx3zo]

I had what was known as the Asian flu in 1958 and I was furious because I had to miss Halloween which was big in my neighborhood I don't remember much about it except spending a lot of time on the couch and my brother very generously sharing his candy with me. Years later I was going to NYC frequently when SARS hit and there were a lot of cases there and then I read that surviving the Asian flu provided antibodies against SARS. Sounds good.

[@tiddiesattic]

I have unlimited facts in the palm of my hand every day

[@marilynlincoln7173]

I am truly impressed that you take the time to learn to pronounce places in peoples names correctly. Thank you young man.

[@caroljo420]

I get so annoyed at narrators who mispronounce names, it's disrespectful!!! The orange turd intentionally mispronounces our Vice President's name as a signal of his lack of respect, and she'll be our next president!

[@jcfreak4ever1]

No political stuff, please; the vid has nothing to do with that, current politics, that is... 😓🙄

[@IdaMommaBear]

Our family LOVES your videos! FYI: the bursting of St. Francis Dam - you noted regulation changes to "prevent this from ever happening again". But it Did! Much lesser known, I believe because the death toll was much less, (thank goodness), due to the rural area in which it happened, (as well as an unusually rapid and organized response of the locals). I think you'd find an internet search about the Teton dam in Eastern Idaho 1976, quite interesting. This dam failure (pun intended) caused 11 deaths, completely washed away 2 farming towns and severely flooded other small towns, including Rexburg Idaho, (population 10,000 in 1976 - reporting over 80% of all structures damaged) Side note: Rexburg Idaho is where Lori Vallow Daybell lived when she participated in the murders of her children.

[@myths98]

My Mom remembers Kennedy. She has a bumper sticker that says "My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car".

[@kathleennagwak1761]

I remember that sticker.

[@HipYo-n8j]

Smfh that bout something to brag about

[@lisapage1718]

Love it!

[@dandutre]

My mom remembers Andrew Jackson. Lol😂

[@peggyscott7108]

Ouch. I remember watching his funeral on tv

[@mikenixon2401]

I love hidden history. Thanks for this listing Mike.

[@kathywiseley4382]

The Chappaquiddick incident ended Kennedy's aspirations for the presidency permanently.

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

I remember the Kennedy accident. He was universally considered a coward. That's a stink that won't wash off.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

Yes, I definitely remember Ted Kennedy’s actions. This family has certainly made for some interesting entertainment. Like a true to life soap opera. “Life with the Kennedy’s.”

[@kimborealis]

I had a friend who had been crippled by that polio outbreak in the 50s.

[@roberste]

Actually, Roosevelt was President-Elect when he was shot at. He wasn't inaugurated until March 4. The presidential inauguration date was changed to January 20 in 1937.

[@jessicacanfield5058]

My mother in law told me about it and was still outraged in 1986, and I agree with her

[@spacebound7247]

Class video again Mike 👍👍👍

[@baliyae]

Wow, I had no idea It’s All in the Game originated as an instrumental piece. And by Calvin Coolidge’s VP. Awesome! 😎👍🏻

[@justanamerican9024]

Thank you for another wonderful, fact filled video. My older brother and sister were given the polio vaccine, both developed polio. That was right about when I was born. My mother, not trusting vaccines, chose not to get me vaccinated and skipped all of them when I was a baby. When I was eight, the school found out and forced my parents to get me vaccinated or I could not go to school. So, the doctor gave me ALL the vaccines at once, which made me very, very ill. Within a year I developed juvenile lupus (SEL). Did that cause the lupus? No one can say for sure, but I suspect there is a connection.

[@cynthiasimpson931]

"All in the Game" sung by Tommy Edwards was No. 1 when I was born in October 1958. On other subjects, I remember Chappaquiddick. It was quite the scandal when it happened.

[@lisachiappetti6092]

Fun fact about it's all in the game. It's on the billboard top 100. Yep, it's one of the 100 greatest songs of all time.

[@HoV326]

My dad told me about the Move Bombing. He lived in Philadelphia and it was a big news story and controversy for West Philly police, even by their standards

[@jonsiesharondjones4957]

Gonna get your book. Love your channel. A lot of these I knew about, but the man that moved a mountain is so tragic and wonderful. I wanna know more. Thanks as always for sharing.

[@RonGreeneComedian]

When Dick Cheney accidentally shot his TX hunting partner, there was a bumper sticker that read, "I would rather go dove hunting with Dick Cheney than be a passenger in Ted Kennedy's car." it is interesting that Mary Jo's family did not want autopsy performed on her. After all, even early pregnancies can be determined.

[@twannifufu]

It's important to note that Harmen's "relationship" with his slave, Tobias, was non-consensual. Slaves had no autonomy and could not consent to anything. Tobias was also underage. Additionally, he fled with Tobias, not his girlfriend. Tobias' fate is unknown.

[@Th3R1ddl3r8t2]

Great video as always

[@bradsmith2937]

I love stories of forgotten history and appreciate the research that you do to come up with these lists. My only beef is that, of these 25, the Ted Kennedy thing would be the one that most people have heard about and not forgotten. That being said, great list and keep up the good work. The War Over Jenkins' Ear deserves a movie adaptation. 😂

[@Sn33kyy]

Honestly i think anything anyone did between april and may of 1912 was probably overshadowed by the titanic not because of race or gender or anything else but because it was one of the biggest tragedies in human history

[@Lifeinbelize]

Very fascinating

[@stephencray6428]

It such a strange world nothing seems to shock me anymore

[@KnightRanger38]

I have known of three of these for years or even decades. Howard Hughes helping the US Navy recover parts of a Soviet Sub, Kennedy, and the German troops who joined American troops against the SS.

[@PaulVandersypen]

As a Canadian, I'd like to clarify some language at 8:02 about the horrific and dark history of Canada's Residential School System: there are NO indigenous peoples in Canada. There are First Nations people, who came via the Siberian Land Bridge, but they were not indigenous. The word indigenous means "produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment", meaning the First Nations people are neither indigenous nor are they native to North America (or South America, for that matter). Language and definitions matter. That clarification aside, what happened to the children was reprehensible.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Tomatoes/tomah-toes

[@paulsarnik8506]

History is full of... history! 🤓😎✌🏻

[@switchmasterluke1630]

I remember Chappaquiddick, and I've read about the War of Jenkins' ear (which was used to great effect on a few sitcoms during the late 1960s and early 1970s). Ted Kennedy more than deserved the loss of his political career over Ms Kopechne's death.

[@jbentz1966]

Nice!

[@kevinfellers6165]

Your book just arrived for my daughter’s birthday 🎂.

[@patriciaaturner289]

#25, another famous victim of defenestration was Count Henri 3rd of Champagne, also known as King Henri of Jerusalem. This happened in the Third Crusade.

[@LaHermitess]

Did I mishear you saying Ted 'Kenny' and Chappaquiddick rather than 'Kennedy' (I listened twice - 16:43), or was that a test to see if your audience was really listening?

[@julianaylor4351]

I've heard of number one; I'm a Brit. Here's a lesser know historical event: one of the Apollo astronauts hit a golf ball on the Moon, to study the Moon's gravity.

[@lesnyk255]

Well, it had nothing to do with scientific advancement. Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard was a diehard golf fan and, since all of the astronauts were allowed to bring personal effects (as long as they stayed within weight limits), he brought a golf ball or 2, and improvised a club with one of the geological tools they'd been provided with. It was done as a lark minutes before climbing back into the LM for the trip back home.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@lesnyk255 Thanks for the info.

[@Laila_Shryock82]

History is interesting

[@EverydayFactsTV1]

This fact was very entertaining until I finally saw it. Thank you for your good content

[@singlesightart]

3:13 I am sad that there is not an Audible version read by you I guess I have to go watch 20 more List 25 videos to make up for it (I’m blind so audiobook is best book).

[@list25]

I'm talking to the team about it.

[@Scoobywilliams123]

My mom was not abused sexually in a residential school. The students weren’t fed (they spent May and June planting gardens). My mom contracted TB from a priest after making a deal that her sisters would be fed. She spent years in a hospital.

[@JulianneRemley-l2q]

Interesting facts

[@evanneal4936]

I already know all these facts, probably because im an actual historian. I still watched it anyway, though...

[@Jesuscrisis]

Wow does your arms ever get tired from patting yourself on the back so much?

[@Jesuscrisis]

Wow a historian you know stuff about the past not impressive...tell us you can see the future and prove it now that be worth saying

[@drewisaac9884]

0:31 the defenestration of Prague didn't happen only once, not only twice but 3 times in history. The first defenestration happened in 1419, the second one happened 1484, and the third one and the most well known one happened in 1618 that kicked off the 30 years war.

[@joshuasill1141]

While Mulholland did deserve his share of the blame for the St. Francis dam failure it's not entirely his fault. He did all the proper precautions by doing soil analysts on all the core samples that were taken of the area. Unbeknownst to him and his engineering team that area was the site of several ancient landslides that were/are only detectable by ground penetrating RADAR. Mulholland was a self-taught engineer who designed and oversaw construction of numerous embankment dams in the Los Angeles area, most of which are still being used. However, he didn't have much experience with concrete or gravity dams and made several errors in the design of the St. Francis dam because of this. His did most of the planning and designing himself without any type of review board or peer review which would've caught the errors he did make, even though they wouldn't have known about the fault lines either. The other big issue was the St. Francis dam, and another dam he built the Mulholland Dam, were being looked at as a basis for a major engineering project - the Hoover Dam. The dam water got into all that undetected loose soil from those ancient land slides and started eroding the soil away. The dam began cracking which is normally expected as the ground and the dam are settling, but the cracking never stopped. Finally enough soil was eroded away that the left-hand side (when you are looking at the face of the dam) gave way and the rest is history. I had to do a report on an engineering failure for an intro to engineering college course for my Electrical Engineering degree.

[@TickedOffPriest]

Homophobia is fear of the same thing. That man was killed for being a sodomite.

[@thequiltless1261]

Nicholas Winton (#17) was featured on a UK tv program called That's Life. I can never watch that clip and keep my eyes dry.

[@MoniqueDamphousse73]

The indigenous residential schools were not only in Canada, but also in many of the United States. While our governments are trying to make restitution, sadly it's too little too late.

[@verdeverde2763]

More 🐩 🐶 videos also could you do a video on psoriasis I know little about it but from personal experience I had it in my scalp and it was itchy but 🤷 about it

[@Trekkie_Gal]

A historical event that not enough people know about is the capture of U-505 by the US Navy in 1944. I'd love to see it on a future list.

[@neonclouds9295]

I've literally known about the residential schools in Canada since I was in public school. I'm 26 by the way

[@timothyweers8054]

Now I know why Ted Kennedy was known a a party animal. LOL

[@DIYDomTheBuilder]

@15:20 - #5 In 1647 America didn’t exist yet. Plus, it’s not “homophobia”. Nobody was irrationally afraid of homosexuality. It just wasn’t permissible by their religious beliefs. All this “phobia” nonsense is so annoying & really needs to retire itself to history.

[@lavernekeller2283]

Agreed especially the term and made up nonsense of Islamophobia, because according to agreed upon nomenclature rules a phobia is an irrational fear of something, eg; arachnophobia or agorophobia the fear of open spaces or being in public. Where as Islamophobia is NOT irrational it's the true fear of Islam and the actions of many of it's followers, I mean we just have to take a look at what Islamists are doing across the globe today from outright genocidal murders and abuses to the enslavement of African blacks that continues to this day in Islamic nations. Look at what the Taliban, Isis, Al Qaeda and many other terror groups have done to other peoples even fellow Moslems and historic sites like the giant stone Budha statues in Afghanistan blown up and destroyed by the Taliban or the destruction of historic sites dating from early Roman times in Syria, and Iraq.

[@abigail_1970]

I really like the background...it's very soothing.

[@allisondeborah7920]

Very important historical moment On September 14th of 1987, at 5:55 in the evening, a baby girl was born at the exact minute her father predicted. And grew to be one of the kindest most loving women you could ever meet or be friends with. Yes. That woman is me 😊😂😂😂😂

[@leighyacotner5019]

Hey, Mike! New fan here. ❤❤❤ So, the homophobia story has what's left of my mind confused. Was the slave a dude? Was "his girlfriend" transitioning? Help me out, here. Was sodomy only illegal between two men? Or could hetero couples be busted, as well? Was our hero bisexual? I need a little more info on this, please and thank you. 🙃

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Your channel has made me much more interesting than I actually am.

[@JBTriple8]

shame about Harriet Quimby i respect Pilots no matter there gender.

[@quettamoore695]

How much is our book?😊

[@paulsarnik8506]

#24 Yeah, but did actually get PAID? 🤓😎✌🏻

[@TimothyWiley-r2b]

You forgot the state of Jefferson...

[@stevenanderson5272]

Woo hoo 82nd like

[@Jennagosu]

it was the Second Defenestration of Prague

[@RNMom424]

I'm confused. How was Vandenberg a victim of homophobia. You said his girlfriend was a slave, but that doesn't qualify. Racism yes, but not homophobia.

[@KingTone510]

"caught in a compromising position with a Black slave" sounds like he wasn't a victim of homophobia, sounds like he was taking advantage of a slave, and should have been prosecuted of sexual assault.

[@susanrobinson910]

I first learned the word defenestrate during 12th grade AP English class in 1993! It was a vocab word, along with histrionic 😂

[@anthonyperno1348]

Debt free! Jackson! = Panic of 1837.

[@ITrend17]

The word "fact" is used as loosely today as it was in the 50's. I'd be very hesitant to define anything as "fact." It could lead to unintentional consequences.

[@ZENegade]

And another first

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

Canada’s residential school system also resulted in generational trauma. Even though we now have a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (not even an official holiday) the federal government has refused to pay the $126 Billion (and counting) settlement ordered by the Supreme Court of Canada to a certain group of indigenous people as a result of the crowns refusal to honour a land agreement. I only recently learned which residential school my mother would have been sent to had she and her siblings not been “scooped“ up by the local children’s aid society during the 60s. It is approximately 246 km from her then home.

[@tracyprobe6509]

Actually it was the catholic church that forced the indigenous people to learn their ways... not the rest of Canada... funny how that's so misleading and confused.. but it's Canada not the catholic church that is held to scrutiny.. I think the catholic church should be involved in reconciliation and held accountable for what they enforced that has all of Canada being punished for still all these years later when none of the citizens alive now had anything to do with 🎉

[@peggyscott7108]

Have you heard about the polio epidemic in Africa, that didnt have enough human cells so they used tissues from monkeys? 20 years later they were trying to figure out how simian HIV ended up in humans.

[@everettsoares2021]

Love the lists , could do without the social commentary.

[@turtle_chele]

Huh. Just stumbled across a channel called Historybook that was an almost replica of this video. Even reading the transcript was an identical match. Actually, it’s an EXACT rip off, including language, etc. of this entire video.

[@list25]

Do you have a link to said video?

[@turtle_chele]

@@list25 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5qnmmCIrs1qa9Esi=sq5KX4t-yrYR6N0H

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Now you know why Ted Kennedy was never president. I remember when it happened. I was about 10 yrs old....

[@Bassingal]

i'm not impressed.

[@reded1905]

More Horrors done in the name of religion. Man oh man, God sure is great. BAH!

[@andeeharry]

history is selective. I didnt know about the 57 pandemic... .phew. The 50s were said to be start of the golden age that spanned 4 decades, but the more I look into it, the more of a dark underbelly that shows. It is weird how it is labelled as nothing when it isn't

[@RNMom424]

I didn't know about it either! It wasn't mentioned in nursing school. My maternal Grandmother died from the Spanish Flu & I had Covid right at the beginning & am one of the "lucky" long Covid folks. I remember the Swine Flu of the 60's, though! I think that's when the flu shots began & were given by the "gun"!

[@JB-td4ei]

8:30 only 3,000 children died in the residential schools, 99% from tuberculosis or other diseases. If you get a fact like this incorrect, what other “facts” on your list are wrong? Correct this by re-recording that segment, or by removing the video. Legal action to follow. I will not have the likes of you besmirching the Canadian people like that.

[@tammyhowington8396]

It’s the research team and there are writers. Mike does not write the content.

[@evarussell5261]

This is sarcasm right? The 'schools in Canada and the us were horrors.

[@JB-td4ei]

⁠not sarcasm. Saying that 30,000 kids were murdered in these schools is wrong and sick, and sets back reconciliation. For the current narrative of residential to be true, Canada would have to be populated by absolute psychopaths. I have trouble believing that

[@verdeverde2763]

So I clicked on something merged windows and a lot of my tabs are gone how do I recover them this my iPad btw

[@verdeverde2763]

None of the deleted tabs are on recently deleted

[@verdeverde2763]

There were 498 important tabs now 456

[@verdeverde2763]

Please help

[@daniellegonzales4223]

You're screwed.

[@RandyOmski]

Always bringing up the past , what are YoU trying to Revolute