This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the cou
October 19, 1814. An eager audience files into the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore, about to se
October 15, 2001. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle receives an innocuous-looking letter. It has ch
October 8, 1939. In the Tibetan city of Lhasa, thousands of people have flooded into the streets to
September 30, 1765. Almost a decade before the American Revolution, delegates from four colonies gat
September 24, 1955. President Eisenhower is asleep in his bed at his in-laws’ house in Denver. At ar
September 16, 1965. Cesar Chavez and the National Farmworkers Association have been plotting a Mexic
September 10, 2002. Thieves have broken into basements in two cities in Afghanistan to steal plastic
Words move humankind for good and for ill, and in the American experience, our most important public
Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noble
August 25, 1797. Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, has published a new pamph
August 18, 1920. In the third row of the legislative chamber in Nashville, Tennessee, 24 year-old Ha
August 11, 1973. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc plays his first New
August 4, 1987. The Federal Communication Commission’s leadership has come together in Washington D.
July 31, 1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptie
July 22, 1934. John Dillinger, America's most famous outlaw, is gunned down by federal agents outsid
July 16, 1945. It happened within a millionth of a second. In the New Mexico desert in the early mor
July 10, 1943. 150,000 British and American soldiers storm the beaches of Sicily in the first Allied
June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global center of trade and commerce. But there’s somethin
June 28, 1970. Hundreds of people start to gather on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village
June 21, 1964. James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights activists in t
