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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words nickname: an informal or fun name given to a person guerrilla fighters: an unofficial military group which fights against the government or official army to empower: to encourage someone or give them the me...
Jul 31, 2022•7 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words contemporary: modern demonstration: people coming together to show their feelings for a person or cause peaceful: without violence repressive: controlling people by force dictatorship: a government ruled by ...
Jul 30, 2022•6 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words global enterprise: a company that operates around the world post-Impressionist: an artist of the Post-Impressionism movement, which focused on emotion rather than realism These events are written in a simple w...
Jul 29, 2022•5 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words citizenship: the status of being recognized as a citizen – a member of a country who has rights First Nations: people who were the first to live in a country liberal: open to new ideas exile: when someone is f...
Jul 28, 2022•7 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words abortion: the ending of a pregnancy so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a child surgeon: a doctor who is specially trained to perform medical operations These events are written in a simple way for interm...
Jul 27, 2022•5 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words reform: a type of change which improves things labor: relating to work or workers refugee: a person who is forced to leave their country because of violence or war massacre: a painful word for the murder of ...
Jul 26, 2022•6 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words cosmonaut: a Russian person who is trained to travel into space agricultural: something relating to or used in farming to deny: to not allow someone to have or do something These events are written in a simple ...
Jul 25, 2022•7 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words treaty: an official agreement or deal between countries to address something: to think about and begin to deal with something to pave the way for something: to make it easier for something to happen LGBTQIA+: le...
Jul 24, 2022•7 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words occupation: the control of an area by a foreign power to step down: to leave a position charged: accused of doing something by law composer: someone who writes music percussion: all instruments that you play by...
Jul 23, 2022•7 min
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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words renowned: famous nude: naked, without clothing self-portrait: an image the artist makes of themselves These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of Ju...
Jul 22, 2022•6 min
Russia’s Romanov dynasty begins, Vietnam is split, and Albert Mvumbi Luthuli dies. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words dynasty: a series of rulers or leaders from the same family to conquer: to overcome something by force (e.g. a country) to extend: to make larger / to increase peaceful struggle: a peaceful effort or fight to ...
Jul 21, 2022•7 min
Protests in Colombia’s capital, a moon landing, and same-sex marriage in Canada. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words to televise: to broadcast / to show something on TV to legalize: to make something legal nationwide: across the whole country These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts ...
Jul 20, 2022•6 min
The birth of Edgar Degas, the end of President Somoza’s rule, and a medical first. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words realist: an artist who recreates things exactly as they are in real life rebel: someone who fights against a leader or ruler dictatorship: a government ruled by a dictator – a single leader with total power ov...
Jul 19, 2022•7 min
Uruguay’s first constitution, an internet photo first and Kim Jong Un increases his power. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words constitution: a country’s set of basic laws and the rules of how it should be led parody: a piece of music or art recreated in a funny way rank: a particular position within an organization These event...
Jul 18, 2022•5 min
Ismail I and actress Diahann Carroll are born, and the Spanish Civil War begins. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words Shah: the title given to a king in Iran pen name: a fake name used by authors to hide their identity (right/left) wing: the political position of a person or group milestone: an important event stereotype: a fix...
Jul 17, 2022•7 min
A kissing ban in England, the birth of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Czar Nicholas’ 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words plague: a disease which causes a large number of deaths founded: to found: to create or start an organization, usually with a group of people These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learne...
Jul 16, 2022•6 min
The vote for British women with Emmeline Pankhurst, and Chinese feminist Qiu Jin. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words suffragette: a woman fighting for the right of women to vote in political elections revolutionary: someone involved in causing big political change These events are written in a simple way for intermediate lear...
Jul 15, 2022•5 min
Rawya Ateya joins the Egyptian Parliament, Rachel Carson, and Maryam Mirzakhani. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words parliament: the group of people who are chosen, or elected, to make the laws for their nation conservationist: someone involved in conservation — work to protect animals, plants and the environment prestigious: ...
Jul 14, 2022•6 min
Ernő Rubik born in Hungary, Wole Soyinka in Nigeria, and Earl Lovelace in Trinidad. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words corruption: illegal or dishonest behavior, often by someone in a position of power rural: relating to the countryside, rather than a city These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of ...
Jul 13, 2022•7 min
The Aboriginal flag, independence for São Tomé and Príncipe, and protests in Mexico. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words aboriginal: relating to a person or group of people who were the first to live in a country coup: a government being suddenly overthrown by a group or individual to kidnap: to capture or take someone away ag...
Jul 12, 2022•7 min
Chinese explorers in the “Western Oceans”, Gwendolyn Margaret Smith, and Martin Wong. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words emperor: a person who rules over an empire tenacious: someone who does not give up easily Latinx: gender-neutral term used to describe people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the US. These e...
Jul 11, 2022•7 min
Political activists jailed, the vote for Dutch women, and Lopo do Nascimento is born. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words conscription: when a government makes its people fight in a war suffrage: the right to vote abolish: to bring something to and end / to do away with something / to remove These events are written in a simpl...
Jul 10, 2022•7 min
Argentinian independence, David Mandessi Diop is born, and gay rights in New Zealand. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words warfare: activities involved in fighting a war congress: a meeting of people who make important decisions about the running of a region or country mindset: a person’s way of thinking or their opinions These...
Jul 09, 2022•6 min
Faye Wattleton, language changes in Malaysia, and the death of Abdul Sattar Edhi. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words midwife: a person trained to help women during the birth of a child relic: something from the past which is now out of date ascetic: simple, without expensive possessions or luxuries These events are written in...
Jul 08, 2022•8 min
Isabelo de los Reyes, Margaret Walker, Sandra Day O’Connor and the Supreme Court. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words socialist: relating to ‘socialism’; the economic and political system which gives the power to the workers civilian: someone who isn’t a member of the armed forces or police These events are written in a simple...
Jul 07, 2022•7 min
Frida Kahlo, Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon, Caribbean countries demand reparations. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words portrait: a painting, drawing or photograph of just a person’s face, or head and shoulders to open the door for somebody/something: to make things easier for somebody or something reparations: money and assist...
Jul 06, 2022•7 min
The first independent republic in Spanish America, and Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words province: a particular region within a country or state republic: a country or nation where the power is held by the people and those chosen to rule campaigner: a person who publicly supports a particular caus...
Jul 05, 2022•5 min
Japan goes to space, a soccer title for Chile, and an artifact sells at auction. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words title: being the winner in a sports competition repatriate: to return something or someone to the country of origin These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accura...
Jul 04, 2022•5 min
Kagaku Murakami, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, and the Second Bosphorus Bridge is completed. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words technique: the way of doing a particular task, especially in art traditional: something that a group or people or society have done or believed for a long time without changing suspension bridge: a type of b...
Jul 03, 2022•6 min
The zeppelin’s first flight, Patrice Lumumba, and Big Momma Thornton’s “Hound Dog”. 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 podcasting@babbel.com. Useful words airship: an aircraft with a large balloon filled with gas and powered by an engine (a ship in the air!) independence: having freedom from outside control (the state of being independent) original: the first f...
Jul 02, 2022•6 min
