Saturday, August 8 — Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day

Some August 8 moments are serious. Some are cinematic. And one is just unbelievably gross.

Today, we begin in 1974, when President Richard Nixon went on national television and announced he would resign the presidency. Then we go to Britain in 1963 for the Great Train Robbery, a carefully planned mail-train heist that became one of the most famous crimes in modern British history. Finally, we land in Chicago in 2004, where a Dave Matthews Band tour bus, a bridge, the Chicago River, and a sightseeing boat came together in one of the strangest music-adjacent incidents imaginable.

We also explore the birthday of Esther Williams, the champion swimmer whose Olympic dreams were interrupted by World War II before Hollywood turned her athletic gift into an entirely new kind of movie spectacle.

History does not always move in the direction people expect. Sometimes the plan changes, the story gets stranger, and the thing people remember is the unexpected path.

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