British captives are imprisoned overnight in the "Black Hole of Calcutta" - June 20th, 1756 - a podcast by iHeartRadio & HowStuffWorks

On this day in 1756, dozens of British prisoners were forced to spend the night in an airless cell known colloquially as the Black Hole of Calcutta.

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