The AFL, ‘Nat King Cole Show,’ & Guy Fawkes: Providential History Podcast (Nov. 5-11)

The American Football League is formed. The Nat King Cole Show debuts. And Guy Fawkes tries to change British history.

It all happened the week of Nov. 5, and it’s all discussed on this week’s edition of Providential History.

Nov. 5

American Football League forms in 1959; “The Nat King Cole Show” debuts and faces racist backlash; Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot; first patent for the automobile; Woodrow Wilson.

 

Nov. 6

1869 and the first college football game; NBC’s Meet the Press; presidential election dates.

 

Nov. 7

Sunday sports banned in Pennsylvania?; Buck Rogers radio program; abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy is murdered.

 

Nov. 8

Bobby Bowden; Andrea Bocelli; Orange Scott, Methodism and slavery.

 

Nov. 9

Pop Warner, Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians; the movie Ninotchka; the Gideons.

 

Nov. 10

Major Indoor Soccer League; Disney and Communism; Kentucky outlaws dueling.

This list will be updated.