June 27, 1954. Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán is deposed in a CIA-backed coup, bringing an end to a brief era of democracy and social progress and ushering in decades of violence and oppression. This episode originally aired in 2023.

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June 26, 1974. After decades of research and development, the first UPC barcode is successfully scanned at a grocery store in Ohio.

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June 25th 1950. The Korean War begins as North Korea sends troops below the 38th parallel invading South Korea.

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June 24, 1535. A radical political uprising comes to an end when the city of Münster falls to an Bishop’s army.

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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we receive the gospel taught by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker- the husband and wife whose corrupt televangelist empire led to financial fraud, a sex scandal, and ultimately jail time.

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June 21, 1582. A Japanese warlord’s hopes of ruling the nation are brought to an end when he is betrayed by one of his closest allies.

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June 20, 1945. In a top-secret operation, the US Secretary of State approves the transfer of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to America.

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June 19, 1968. Over 50,000 people march on Washington D.C. to protest economic injustice in the climax of Martin Luther King and the SCLC’s “Poor People’s Campaign,” an event coined “Solidarity Day.” This episode originally aired in 2023.

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