This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the cou
November 22, 1718. Early morning, off the North Carolina coast. The pirate Blackbeard, peering over
November 16, 1532. Atahualpa, the king of the Inca Empire, marches towards the city of Cajamarca in
November 7, 1811. William Henry Harrison and his troops are camped near the Wabash river. They’ve be
November 5, 1998. Using DNA evidence, the scientific journal Nature publishes findings that put to r
October 26, 1948. A mysterious fog descends upon the valley town of Donora, Pennsylvania. Most of it
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October 22, 1975. After traveling millions of miles through space, a Soviet spacecraft plunges throu
October 13, 1982. The announcement came from Switzerland, across the world from where Jim Thorpe was
October 4, 1915. President Woodrow Wilson designates Dinosaur National Monument as a national histor
October 1, 1788. William Brodie mounts the gallows outside Edinburgh’s jail. Just a few years before
September 20, 1187. It’s daytime outside the walls of Jerusalem. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, ponde
September 2, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this oth
September 8, 1966. For the first time, the USS Enterprise appears on screen. It is the premiere of a
September 2, 31 BCE. Two camps prepare for battle off the coast of Greece. On one side is Octavian,
August 27, 1900. Dr. Jesse Lazear, a U.S. Army surgeon, walks into Las Animas Hospital Yellow Fever
August 17, 1987. On the red carpet in New York City, it’s the premier of a new movie: Dirty Dancing.
August 14, 1967. Off the coast of England, a group of pirate ships has been fighting to stay afloat.
August 6, 1991. On an Internet news board, a memo appears, describing a new project that some scient
7/31/1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied ou
July 21, 1855. Literary lion Ralph Waldo Emerson writes a letter to an unknown Brooklyn journalist n
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