MONDAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL — HONOR VETERANS THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1859 – The flying-trapeze act debuts at the Circus Napoleon, featuring Jules Leotard 1892 – The first professional football player — Pudge Heffelfinger accepts
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November 9, 2018 — The midterm election mess continues as Fl, GA and AZ are all looking at recounts
Today’s Two-Minute Drill THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1799 – Napoleon is part of a coup in France and declares himself Emperor 1938 – ‘Kristallnacht’ — the Nazis burned temples and Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
Read moreThursday – November 8, 2018 — AG Jeff Sessions is out at the DOJ, CNN’s Acosta out at the White House
LISTEN TO THE ANGIE AUSTIN AND MIKE OPELKA SHOW HERE THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1895 – Germany scientist Roentgen discovered X-rays – figured out they were able to penetrate human skin, but not bones
Read moreNovember 6, 2018 Election Day (Can we all like each other again?)
Election Day! THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected President 1945 – The first ever landing of a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier — an FR-1 Fireball touched
Read moreMonday, November 5, 2018 — Eve of the Midterms!
On This Day, Back In The Day 1605 – Guy Fawkes is arrested and charged with trying to blow up the British Parliament 1872 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote
Read moreFriday, November 2, 2018 — Trump warns caravan, Oprah knocks on doors in GA and JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
70 years ago today… oops. On This Day, Back In The Day 1889 – North Dakota became the 39th State in the Union and a few seconds later, South Dakota was #40 1947 – Howard
Read moreThursday, November 1, 2018 — FINAL MIDTERM PUSH — EVEN OPRAH IS GETTING INVOLVED!
LISTEN TO THE ANGIE AUSTIN AND MIKE OPELKA SHOW HERE On This Day, Back In The Day 1512 – The Sistine Chapel opens to the public – Michelangelo’s ceiling paintings are finally on display 1765 –
Read moreOctober 31, 2018 — Happy Halloween! Now, let’s change birthright citizenship and have CNN host declare white men to be a terror threat
LISTEN TO THE ANGIE AUSTIN AND MIKE OPELKA SHOW HERE On This Day, Back In The Day 1517 – Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church — Protestantism (Christianity’s
Read moreOctober 30, 2018 — Halloween Eve — Can your costume cost you your job? President Trump heads to Pittsburgh
On This Day, Back In The Day 1811 – Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is published anonymously 1938 – Orson Welles scared the crap out of people with his radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ ‘War
Read moreMonday – October 29, 2018 — After the mass murder in Pittsburgh, can we heal?
On This Day, Back In The Day 1682 – William Penn arrived in “Pennsylvania’ 1787 – Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” premiered in Prague 1929 – The NY Stock Exchange crashed on “Black Tuesday” — The Great
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