This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the cou
November 11, 1918. At exactly 11 AM local time, the shooting stops. It’s eerily quiet for the first
November 4, 1605. The king's men are conducting a search. They're making their way through the store
October 28, 1895. It’s the first day of a murder trial in Philadelphia, and H.H. Holmes has been lef
October 21, 1879. It’s late in the evening and a 32-year-old inventor is in his New Jersey lab, tink
October 11, 1995. Professor Mario Molina is at his desk at MIT when he gets a long distance call fro
October 4, 1938. Soviet pilot Marina Raskova beats a world record: the longest continuous flight eve
October 1, 1904. Show up at a newsstand this morning, and you'll see that the October issue of McClu
September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston’s 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms
September 15, 1893. About 4,000 people are intently listening to a monk on a stage in Chicago. They’
Episode 1: The Bullet. The 9/11 attacks were so much more than a bolt from the blue on a crisp Septe
September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat ba
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: Sept 5, 1698.
August 24, 1914. A train pulls up to the lumber town of White River, Ontario, carrying a regiment of
August 21, 1911. On a Monday morning, a department store employee on a Paris street sees a man hurry
August 14, 1967. Off the coast of England, a group of pirate ships has been fighting to stay afloat.
August 2, 1915. The poem appears in print for the first time this week, from Kentucky to Pennsylvani
August 1, 1936. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Adolf Hitler enters the stadium to a mili
July 19, 64 AD. The Circus Maximus is the main arena in ancient Rome at this time, where tens of tho
July 15, 1799 (approximately). In the town of Rashid on the Nile Delta, French soldiers and Egyptian
July 10, 1925. A group of Tennessee jurors is selected to judge the case of John T. Scopes, a high s
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