A soccer first, Julia Tsenova’s birth, and a deadly student protest in San Salvador.<br /><br />Join us and discover what happened on this day in the past. All while improving your listening skills and learning a few new words along the way. Email us your feedback to [email protected].<br /><br />Useful words<br />contemporary: modern<br />demonstration: people coming together to show their feelings for a person or cause<br />peaceful: without violence<br />repressive: controlling people by force<br />dictatorship: a government ruled by a single leader with total power over the country<br /><br />These events are written in a simple way for intermediate learners of English. Facts are accurate as of June 2021.<br /><br />If you’d like to read along, you can find the transcript for this episode here: <a href="https://bit.ly/3O7qMTy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bit.ly/3O7qMTy</a> <br /><br />Content warning: violence