Siege of Jerusalem, Telstar & America the Beautiful | Jul 20–26

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Siege of Jerusalem, Telstar & America the Beautiful | Jul 20–26

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This week in history stretches from ancient Jerusalem to the peaks of the Peruvian Andes, from a Chicago riverbank disaster to a fragile monoplane crossing the English Channel. Eight events, spanning nearly two millennia, all connected by the same seven days on the calendar.

In July 70 AD, Roman general Titus stormed the Fortress of Antonia, beginning the brutal endgame of the Siege of Jerusalem. In 1909, Louis Blériot made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel — 37 minutes that changed the meaning of Britain's island status forever. In 1962, the Telstar satellite beamed the first live transatlantic television broadcast into homes on both sides of the ocean, with Walter Cronkite appearing in real time on European screens.

We also visit 1893, when poet Katharine Lee Bates stood atop Pikes Peak and wrote the words that became America the Beautiful; 1911, when Hiram Bingham III stumbled upon Machu Picchu and introduced it to the wider world; and 1915, when the SS Eastland capsized in the Chicago River, killing 844 people just feet from shore in one of the Great Lakes' deadliest disasters.

There's also the story of Pumpsie Green, who in 1959 quietly ended baseball's last chapter of segregation when he took the field for the Boston Red Sox — 12 years after Jackie Robinson. And in Greece in 1974, a military junta collapsed and Konstantinos Karamanlis returned from exile to begin the metapolitefsi — Greece's democratic restoration.

History doesn't wait for a theme. Sometimes it just shows up, all at once, in a single week.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

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