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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and you're listening to

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a podcast for people interested

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Speaker 1: in the big and small moments in history. Today. It's

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Speaker 1: October twelfth, nineteen. The day was October twelfth, eighteen ten.

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Speaker 1: Crown Prince Ludvik married Princess Teresa of Sexa Hildeberghausen, and

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Speaker 1: the citizens of Munich were invited to celebrate the occasion

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Speaker 1: in the fields in front of the city gate. This

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Speaker 1: celebration is the origin of october Fest, a festival and

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Speaker 1: fair in Munich that's held annually and attracts visitors from

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Speaker 1: around the world. In the days after the marriage, the

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Speaker 1: people of Bavaria gathered in front of the zen Linger tour,

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Speaker 1: a gate leading to Munich. The festivities in the inaugural

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Speaker 1: year of october Fest included a feast in horse races,

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Speaker 1: which around forty thousand people attended. The fields where the

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Speaker 1: celebration was held had been dubbed terse and Visa, which

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Speaker 1: means Teresa's Meadow after the crown princess. Today, locals often

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Speaker 1: called the celebration of Viasan, after the nickname for the

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Speaker 1: fair grounds. October Fest was held again in eighteen eleven,

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Speaker 1: including horse races, drinking and feasting, but that year an

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Speaker 1: agricultural show was also part of the festivities. The eighteen

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Speaker 1: thirteen october Fest was canceled because of the Napoleonic Wars,

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Speaker 1: but after that the october Fest began to grow. In

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Speaker 1: the beginning, there weren't many amusements to choose from the

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Speaker 1: first carousel and two swings were set up in eighteen eighteen.

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Speaker 1: After eighteen nineteen, october Fest was planned as an annual event,

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Speaker 1: and more beer stands and attractions were added. The duration

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Speaker 1: of the festival was lengthened and moved to the end

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Speaker 1: of September to take advantage of longer and warmer days.

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Speaker 1: Bludavic became king of Bavaria in eighteen twenty five and

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Speaker 1: Teresa became queen, and they remained so until Ludvig abdicated

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Speaker 1: and his son Maximilian the Second took the throne in

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Speaker 1: eighteen forty eight. Still october Fest continued, though it has

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Speaker 1: been canceled in many years because of war, cholera, hyper inflation,

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Speaker 1: and other things that disrupted the normal course of events.

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Speaker 1: Electricity began powering the festival around eighteen eighty and beer

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Speaker 1: tents were introduced years after that. Beer has been served

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Speaker 1: in glass mugs at october Fest since eighteen ninety two.

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Speaker 1: Horse races are no longer featured, but the agricultural show

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Speaker 1: still happens once every four years. October Fest grew to

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Speaker 1: include amusements like bowling alleys and dance floors, and cities

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Speaker 1: outside of Germany that were home to many German descended

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Speaker 1: residents began hosting october Fest celebrations based on the original

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Speaker 1: event held in Munich. Though october Fest is celebratory, in

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Speaker 1: the early nineteen thirties, the festival did serve as a

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Speaker 1: vehicle for Nazi propaganda and nationalistic pride, and Jewish people

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Speaker 1: were forbidden from working on the fairgrounds. Now, october Fest

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Speaker 1: begins in late September and last until the first Sunday

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Speaker 1: in October, and parades kick off the festivities. Though the

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Speaker 1: event has expanded to include concerts, theater and other productions

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Speaker 1: and it draws millions of people, is still an important

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Speaker 1: part of Bavarian culture. I'm each deathcote and hopefully you

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Speaker 1: know a little more about history today than you did yesterday.

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