THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
by Paul Letters and Noreen Mir (RTHK Radio 3)
December 12, 2016 11:50 pm
Each month historian Paul Letters delves back into events from This Month in History. The focus is on modern history, with anaylsis of how historical events shape our modern world. For example, we talked to the US fighter pilot who stepped into the March 1969 conflict between China and the USSR which caused the “Madman” nuclear alert.
Recent Episodes
Battle of Hong Kong Special
8 years ago00:00/00:001956 – Hungary and Mao
8 years ago00:00/00:00Nazis invite USSR into Axis Alliance
8 years ago00:00/00:00Sun Yat-sen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution
8 years ago00:00/00:00Trump v Clinton v 1960
8 years ago00:00/00:00USA, Taiwan and Mao goes nuclear
8 years ago00:00/00:00Madman Nuclear Alert 1969
8 years ago00:00/00:00Filipinos ‘massacre’ Americans / How Chiang Kai-shek threw away China
8 years ago00:00/00:00WW3:Cuba / The living pop star who ‘died’ in 1969 / WW2 China v China v Japan [sic]
8 years ago00:00/00:00JFK v Nixon / Why Japan joined the Axis powers / Sporting cheats
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