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[100 Years Ago Today] August 4, 1926 – Korea
Wednesday, August 4, 1926 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) - As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history Good evening, and welcome to 100 Years Ago Today. On the surface, Wednesday, August 4, 1926, looked like any other late-summe…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 3, 1926 – Gunfire at a Guadalajara Church, a Colonial Courthouse Still Interrogating
Good evening, and welcome to 100 Years Ago Today. As you wind down your day, step back with us to a Tuesday a century ago — August 3, 1926. In Seoul, late-summer heat lingered over a courthouse district that had not gone quiet since June. …
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 2, 1926 – A Day After Recording “Hymn of Death,” Two Days Left
🕙 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) — As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history Good evening. It's 10:10 PM in Seoul, 1:10 PM in London, as tonight's edition of 100 Years Ago Today begins. The date is August 2, 1926 — an unremar…
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[100 Years Ago Today] August 1, 1926 – Korea
Good evening, and welcome to tonight's "100 Years Ago Today." On a quiet Sunday in colonial Seoul — then called Gyeongseong — the most widely read Korean-language magazine of the decade printed its final issue and closed its doors for good…
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[100 Years Ago Today] July 30, 1926 – Death of Kaneko Fumiko, Park Yeol
Good evening, and welcome to 100 Years Ago Today. As the streets of colonial Gyeongseong (Seoul) settled into a humid summer evening on Friday, July 30, 1926, a quiet, unofficial rumor was moving faster than any headline: a Japanese woman …
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[100 Years Ago Today] July 29, 1926 – A Leaked Prison Photo of Korean Anarchist Pak Yeol Shakes Tokyo’s Cabinet
Good evening. It is Thursday, July 29, 1926, and as Gyeongseong winds down for the night, a very different kind of storm is breaking eight hundred miles away in Tokyo. A single photograph — smuggled out of a Japanese prison, showing a cond…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 14, 1925 – On the Eve of the Joseon Shrine Enshrinement, Seoul Placed Under Total Police Mobilization
10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) - As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history Wednesday, October 14, 1925 Good evening, and welcome back to "100 Years Ago Today." A century ago tonight, the slopes of Namsan mountain in Gyeongseon…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 13, 1925 – Imperial Envoy Reaches Seoul, Police Mobilize for Shrine Ceremony
Good evening. It's 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC), October 13, 1925 — a Tuesday — one hundred years ago tonight, and this is "100 Years Ago Today." Under a crisp autumn sky, Gyeongseong (colonial-era Seoul) had been on edge since dawn. Police …
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 12, 1925 – Flood Recovery Drags On as the Provisional Government Struggles to Form a Cabinet
10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) - As you wind down your day, reflect on a century of history It is Monday, October 12, 1925, in Gyeongseong, colonial Korea. No confirmed weather record survives for this specific day, though by the lunar calenda…
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[100 Years Ago Today] October 11, 1925 – Locarno Nears a Deal, Shanghai Falls to War, Seoul
Good evening. It's 10:10 PM in Korea as we look back a century, to Sunday, October 11, 1925. Seoul kept the day quiet — church bells over Jeongdong and Jongno, hammering still rising from a stadium construction site, a press trial dragging…
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