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DESCRIPTION:January 1 in history:\n• 1726 – J. S. Bach led the first pe
 rformance of Herr Gott\, dich loben wir\, BWV 16\, his church cantata for 
 New Year's Day to a libretto by Georg Christian Lehms (pictured). /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1726-01-01-herr-gott-dich-loben-wi
 r-bwv-16\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The town of Norfolk\, V
 irginia\, was burned and destroyed by the combined actions of British and 
 Whig forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-01-01-bu
 rning-of-norfolk\n• 1785 – The Times began publication in London as Th
 e Daily Universal Register. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1785-01-01-the-times\n• 1926 – Ireland's first broadcaster\, 2RN\, b
 egan broadcasting. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1926-01
 -01-2rn\n• 2011 – A suicide bombing took place outside a Coptic Orthod
 ox Church in Alexandria\, Egypt\, following a New Year service\, killing 2
 3 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-01-01-2011-
 alexandria-bombing\n\nBorn 1887: Wilhelm Canaris https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris\nBorn 1926: Maria Frisé https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Maria_Fris%C3%A9\nBorn 1975: Eiichiro Oda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Eiichiro_Oda\nBorn 1983: Shou Zi Chew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shou_Z
 i_Chew\n\nPictured: Lehms\, c. 1715.
SUMMARY:📅 January 1 · Herr Gott\, dich loben wir\, BWV 16\, Burning of 
 Norfolk\, The Times\, 2RN\, 2011…
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DESCRIPTION:January 2 in history:\n• 533 – Mercurius\, a Roman priest\,
  was elected Pope John II\; he was likely the first pope to adopt a new na
 me upon elevation to the papacy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-0533-01-02-pope-john-ii\n• 1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkur
 at II of Mataram of Java and his courtiers stabbed Trunajaya to death a we
 ek after the rebel leader surrendered to VOC forces. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1680-01-02-amangkurat-ii-of-mataram\n• 1941 
 – Second World War: Llandaff Cathedral (pictured) in Cardiff\, Wales\, w
 as severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-01-02-llandaff-cathedral\n• 1
 976 – An extratropical cyclone began affecting parts of western Europe\,
  resulting in coastal flooding around the southern portions of the North S
 ea and leading to at least 82 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1976-01-02-gale-of-january-1976\n• 2024 – While landing at
  Haneda Airport\, Japan Airlines Flight 516 collided with a De Havilland C
 anada Dash 8 which killed five people in total. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-2024-01-02-2024-haneda-airport-runway-collision\n\nD
 ied 1096: William de St-Calais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_St
 -Calais\nBorn 1870: Tex Rickard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Rickard\
 nBorn 1938: Lynn Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway\nDied 20
 09: Dnyaneshwar Agashe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnyaneshwar_Agashe\n\
 nPictured: Llandaff Cathedral.
SUMMARY:📅 January 2 · Pope John II\, Trunajaya rebellion\, Llandaff Cat
 hedral\, Gale of January 1976\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 3 in history:\n• 1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal
  bull Decet Romanum Pontificem\, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusin
 g to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1521-01-03-pope-leo-x\n•
  1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked
  a political row over the operational involvement of Winston Churchill\, t
 hen Home Secretary. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-0
 1-03-siege-of-sidney-street\n• 1941 – Second World War: As part of Ope
 ration Compass\, Australian and United Kingdom forces attacked Italian for
 ces at the Battle of Bardia in Egypt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1941-01-03-battle-of-bardia\n• 1961 – All 25 people on boa
 rd Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when the 
 aircraft crashed near Kvevlax. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1961-01-03-aero-flight-311\n• 1973 – CBS announced the sale of th
 e New York Yankees professional baseball team to a group of investors head
 ed by American businessman George Steinbrenner. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1973-01-03-new-york-yankees\n• 2026 – The United
  States launches a military operation in Venezuela\, capturing president N
 icolás Maduro (pictured) and his wife. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-2026-01-03-2026-united-states-intervention-in-venez\n\nBorn 
 1731: Angelo Emo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Emo\nBorn 1831: Savi
 tribai Phule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule\nBorn 1961: Ly
 nn Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Hill\nDied 2013: Robert Clark h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clark_%28businessman%29\n\nPictured: N
 icolás Maduro aboard the [[USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7).
SUMMARY:📅 January 3 · Pope Leo X\, Siege of Sidney Street\, Battle of B
 ardia\, Aero Flight 311\, New…
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DESCRIPTION:January 4 in history:\n• 1798 – After his appointment as Pr
 ince of Wallachia\, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume th
 e throne. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1798-01-04-const
 antine-hangerli\n• 1909 – British explorer Aeneas Mackintosh\, a membe
 r of the Nimrod Expedition\, escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1909-01-04-aeneas-mackintosh
 \n• 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul 
 from United Nations forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1951-01-04-third-battle-of-seoul\n• 1972 – Rose Heilbron (pictured) 
 became the first female judge to sit at the Central Criminal Court of Engl
 and and Wales. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-01-04-
 rose-heilbron\n• 2019 – A fire in an escape room in Koszalin\, Poland\
 , killed five teenagers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 019-01-04-koszalin-escape-room-fire\n\nBorn 1883: Johanna Westerdijk https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Westerdijk\nDied 1951: Arthur Rose Eldred
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rose_Eldred\nDied 1961: Erwin Schrö
 dinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger\nBorn 1967: Da
 vid Berman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman_%28musician%29\n\nPi
 ctured: Rose Heilbron.
SUMMARY:📅 January 4 · Constantine Hangerli\, Aeneas Mackintosh\, Third 
 Battle of Seoul\, Rose Heilbron\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 5 in history:\n• 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: French tr
 oops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim (
 pictured) in Alsace. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1675-
 01-05-battle-of-turckheim\n• 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated
  as Governor of Wyoming\, the first woman to serve as the governor of a U.
 S. state. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-01-05-nelli
 e-tayloe-ross\n• 1975 – The bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck a bridg
 e over the River Derwent in Hobart\, Australia\, causing the deaths of sev
 en of the ship's crewmen and five motorists on the bridge. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1975-01-05-tasman-bridge-disaster\n• 19
 76 – The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the prev
 ious night\, South Armagh Republican Action Force gunmen killed ten Protes
 tants in County Armagh\, Northern Ireland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1976-01-05-reavey-and-o-dowd-killings\n• 1991 – The e
 mbassy of the United States to Somalia was evacuated by helicopter airlift
  days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-01-05-operation-eastern-e
 xit\n\nDied 1430: Philippa of England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip
 pa_of_England\nBorn 1941: Hayao Miyazaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay
 ao_Miyazaki\nBorn 1946: Diane Keaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_K
 eaton\nBorn 1986: Deepika Padukone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_P
 adukone\n\nPictured: Battle of Turckheim.
SUMMARY:📅 January 5 · Battle of Turckheim\, Nellie Tayloe Ross\, Tasman
  Bridge disaster\, Reavey and…
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DESCRIPTION:January 6 in history:\n• 1066 – Harold Godwinson\, the last
  Anglo-Saxon monarch before the Norman Conquest\, was crowned King of Engl
 and. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1066-01-06-harold-god
 winson\n• 1536 – The oldest European school of higher learning in the 
 Americas\, the Colegio de Santa Cruz\, was founded in Tlatelolco\, Mexico 
 City. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1536-01-06-colegio-d
 e-santa-cruz-de-tlatelolco\n• 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori
  opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in
  Rome\, employing a philosophy of education that now bears her name. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1907-01-06-maria-montessori\n
 • 1941 – During his State of the Union address\, U.S. president Frankl
 in D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms (composite poster depicted) as
  fundamental freedoms that all people ought to enjoy. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1941-01-06-four-freedoms\n• 1972 – A brawl
  broke out between players\, fans\, and police officers during an ice hock
 ey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the St. Louis Blues in Philade
 lphia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-01-06-st-louis
 -blues-philadelphia-flyers-brawl\n\nBorn 1587: Gaspar de Guzmán\, Count-D
 uke of Olivares https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_de_Guzm%C3%A1n%2C_Cou
 nt-Duke_of_Olivares\nBorn 1981: Rinko Kikuchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Rinko_Kikuchi\nBorn 1986: Usha Vance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_
 Vance\nDied 1991: Alan Wiggins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wiggins\
 n\nPictured: Four Freedoms composite poster (1943).
SUMMARY:📅 January 6 · Harold Godwinson\, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlate
 lolco\, Maria Montessori\, Four…
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DESCRIPTION:January 7 in history:\n• 1327 – The Parliament of 1327\, wh
 ich was instrumental in the transfer of the English Crown from King Edward
  II to his son\, Edward III\, began at the Palace of Westminster. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1327-01-07-parliament-of-1327\n•
  1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to Ne
 w Zealand's West Coast\, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1931-01-07-guy-menzies\n• 1978
  – An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was publish
 ed in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini\, then in exile 
 in Iraq. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1978-01-07-iran-a
 nd-red-and-black-colonization\n• 1989 – In one of the most famous upse
 ts in FA Cup history\, Sutton United\, a team in the fifth tier of English
  league football\, defeated top-tier Coventry City. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1989-01-07-sutton-united-2-1-coventry-city-1989\
 n\nDied 1619: Nicholas Hilliard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hil
 liard\nBorn 1951: Helena Válková https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_V%
 C3%A1lkov%C3%A1\nBorn 1956: Johnny Owen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John
 ny_Owen\nBorn 1991: Eden Hazard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Hazard\
 n\nPictured: Guy Menzies.
SUMMARY:📅 January 7 · Parliament of 1327\, Guy Menzies\, Iran and Red a
 nd Black Colonization\, Sutton…
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DESCRIPTION:January 8 in history:\n• 1735 – George Frideric Handel's op
 era Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre (pictured) in London.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1735-01-08-ariodante\n•
  1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address
  in New York City\, then the provisional capital of the United States. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1790-01-08-state-of-the-union
 \n• 1939 – The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the A
 ustralian government\, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Aust
 ralians in exchange for cultural assimilation. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1939-01-08-new-deal-for-aborigines\n• 1991 – Jere
 my Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson\, T
 exas\, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy". /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-01-08-jeremy-song\n• 2010 – Gunm
 en from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabi
 nda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the A
 frica Cup of Nations in Angola\, killing three people. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-2010-01-08-togo-national-football-team-attack
 \n\nDied 926: Athelm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athelm\n\nPictured: Cov
 ent Garden Theatre.
SUMMARY:📅 January 8 · Ariodante\, State of the Union\, New Deal for Abo
 rigines\, Jeremy (song)\, Togo…
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DESCRIPTION:January 9 in history:\n• 1917 – World War I: A meeting of t
 he German Crown Council decided upon the resumption of unrestricted submar
 ine warfare. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1917-01-09-9-
 january-1917-german-crown-council-meet\n• 1972 – Seawise University\, 
 formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured)\, an ocean liner that sailed the A
 tlantic for Cunard Line\, caught fire in Victoria Harbour\, Hong Kong. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-01-09-rms-queen-elizabet
 h\n• 1981 – U.S. representative Raymond Lederer was convicted of bribe
 ry and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal\, but continued to se
 rve his term for three more months. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1981-01-09-raymond-lederer\n• 1996 – First Chechen War: Chec
 hen separatists launched raids in the city of Kizlyar\, Dagestan\, which t
 urned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-01-09-kizlyar-pervomaysko
 ye-hostage-crisis\n• 2015 – A hostage situation\, related to the Charl
 ie Hebdo shooting\, occurred at a Jewish market in Vincennes. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-01-09-hypercacher-kosher-supermar
 ket-siege\n\nDied 1511: Demetrios Chalkokondyles https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Demetrios_Chalkokondyles\nBorn 1912: Annemarie Heinrich https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie_Heinrich\nBorn 1982: Catherine\, Princess of Wa
 les https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%2C_Princess_of_Wales\nDied 202
 5: Otto Schenk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schenk\n\nPictured: RMS&
 nbsp\;''Queen Elizabeth'' in 1967.
SUMMARY:📅 January 9 · 9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting\, RMS
  Queen Elizabeth\, Raymond…
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DESCRIPTION:January 10 in history:\n• 976 – After the death of his guar
 dian John I Tzimiskes\, Basil II became the effective ruler and senior emp
 eror of the Byzantine Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-0976-01-10-basil-ii\n• 1430 – Philip the Good established the Orde
 r of the Golden Fleece\, referred to as the most prestigious\, exclusive\,
  and expensive order of chivalry in the world. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1430-01-10-order-of-the-golden-fleece\n• 1917 – I
 mperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party 
 were rescued after being stranded for several months. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1917-01-10-ross-sea-party\n• 1941 – Greco-
 Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura P
 ass in Albania. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-01-10
 -capture-of-klisura-pass\n• 1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sin
 clair C5 personal electric vehicle (pictured)\, "one of the great marketin
 g bombs of postwar British industry"\, which later became a cult collectab
 le despite its commercial failure. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1985-01-10-sinclair-c5\n\nDied 1778: Carl Linnaeus /travel/calend
 ars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-carl-linnaeus-q1043\nBorn 1945: Rod S
 tewart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart\nBorn 1990: Tao Li https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Li\n\nPictured: Sinclair&nbsp\;C5.
SUMMARY:📅 January 10 · Basil II\, Order of the Golden Fleece\, Ross Sea
  party\, Capture of Klisura Pass\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 11 in history:\n• 1055 – Theodora Porphyrogenita be
 came the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her brother
 -in-law Constantine IX Monomachos. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1055-01-11-theodora-porphyrogenita\n• 1946 – The People's Rep
 ublic of Albania was proclaimed\, with Enver Hoxha as the country's de fac
 to head of state. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1946-01-
 11-enver-hoxha\n• 1961 – Students at the University of Georgia rioted 
 in an attempt to prevent the attendance of two African-American students. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-01-11-university-of-g
 eorgia-desegregation-riot\n• 1986 – The Gateway Bridge (pictured) in B
 risbane\, Australia\, opened as the largest prestressed-concrete\, single-
 box bridge in the world. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 986-01-11-sir-leo-hielscher-bridges\n• 2024 – Several thousand North K
 orean migrant workers in Helong engaged in civil unrest\, including a fact
 ory occupation and the taking of managers as hostages\, due to unpaid wage
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2024-01-11-2024-helong-
 north-korean-migrant-workers\n\nBorn 1885: Alice Paul https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Alice_Paul\nDied 1953: Roberta Fulbright https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Roberta_Fulbright\nBorn 1978: Emile Heskey https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Emile_Heskey\nDied 2013: Tom Parry Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Tom_Parry_Jones\n\nPictured: Gateway Bridge.
SUMMARY:📅 January 11 · Theodora Porphyrogenita\, Enver Hoxha\, Universi
 ty of Georgia desegregation…
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DESCRIPTION:January 12 in history:\n• 475 – Basiliscus became Byzantine
  emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-0475-01-12-basiliscus\n• 1808 – John Renn
 ie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church (pictured) in Reculver from coastal
  erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition\, despite the church being 
 an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1808-01-12-st-mary-s-church-reculver\n• 1895 – The Nati
 onal Trust\, a conservation organisation in England\, Wales and Northern I
 reland\, was founded. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1895
 -01-12-national-trust\n• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann becam
 e the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite\, Germany's 
 highest military honour. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 916-01-12-oswald-boelcke\n• 2010 – An earthquake registering 7.0 Mw st
 ruck Haiti\, killing more than 100\,000 people. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-2010-01-12-2010-haiti-earthquake\n\nBorn 1822: Étie
 nne Lenoir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Lenoir\nDied 1926: A
 ustin Chapman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Chapman\nDied 1976: Aga
 tha Christie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie\nBorn 2000: Zha
 nsaya Abdumalik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhansaya_Abdumalik\n\nPictur
 ed: St Mary's Church\, Reculver.
SUMMARY:📅 January 12 · Basiliscus\, St Mary's Church\, Reculver\, Natio
 nal Trust\, Oswald Boelcke\, 2010…
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DESCRIPTION:January 13 in history:\n• 1815 – British troops captured Fo
 rt Peter in St. Marys\, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take plac
 e in the state of Georgia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1815-01-13-battle-of-fort-peter\n• 1916 – The first Feminist Congress
  of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida\, Mexico\, to propose r
 eforms for women's social\, educational\, and legal rights. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916-01-13-first-feminist-congress-of-yu
 catan\n• 1949 – In the first recorded instance of strike action by Cat
 holic laity against the clergy\, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queen
 s\, New York City\, went on strike. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1949-01-13-1949-calvary-cemetery-strike\n• 2001 – The first 
 of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador\, killi
 ng at least 944 people and destroying over 100\,000 homes. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-01-13-january-2001-el-salvador-earth
 quake\n• 2003 – The trans-Neptunian object 208996 Achlys was discovere
 d by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory\, Californi
 a. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2003-01-13-208996-achly
 s\n\nDied 858: Æthelwulf\, King of Wessex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%
 C3%86thelwulf%2C_King_of_Wessex\nDied 1935: Brynhild Olivier https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Brynhild_Olivier\nBorn 1988: Maon Kurosaki https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Maon_Kurosaki\nDied 2012: Guido Dessauer https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Guido_Dessauer\n\nPictured: Delegates at the first Feminist C
 ongress of Yucatán.
SUMMARY:📅 January 13 · Battle of Fort Peter\, first Feminist Congress o
 f Yucatán\, 1949 Calvary…
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DESCRIPTION:January 14 in history:\n• 1641 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Th
 e Dutch siege of Malacca against the Portuguese ended when Dutch troops se
 ized the city's citadel (depicted). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1641-01-14-siege-of-malacca-1640-1641\n• 1907 – An earthquak
 e registering 6.2 Mw struck Kingston\, Jamaica\, resulting in approximatel
 y 1\,000 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1907-01-1
 4-1907-kingston-earthquake\n• 1966 – Vietnam War: United States and Au
 stralian troops ended Operation Crimp\; during the military operation\, tr
 oops discovered an extensive tunnel network used by the Viet Cong. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1966-01-14-operation-crimp\n• 1
 978 – Austrian logician Kurt Gödel\, who suffered from an obsessive fea
 r of being poisoned\, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized a
 nd unable to cook for him. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1978-01-14-kurt-godel\n• 2011 – Arab Spring: Tunisian president Zine 
 El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after several violent protests. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-01-14-tunisian-revolution\n
 \nBorn 1861: Evander Berry Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander_Berr
 y_Wall\nBorn 1921: James P. Hagerstrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James
 _P._Hagerstrom\nBorn 1931: Caterina Valente https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Caterina_Valente\nDied 2016: Alan Rickman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al
 an_Rickman\n\nPictured: Map of the fort of Malacca.
SUMMARY:📅 January 14 · Siege of Malacca (1640–1641)\, 1907 Kingston e
 arthquake\, Operation Crimp\, Kurt…
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DESCRIPTION:January 15 in history:\n• 1867 – In Regent's Park\, London\
 , the ice on the lake broke\, plunging skaters into the water and causing 
 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1867-01-15-regent-s-park-skating-disaster\n• 1910 – Cons
 truction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam\, then the tallest dam in t
 he world\, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1910-01-15-buffalo-bill-dam\n• 1951
  – Ilse Koch\, wife of Karl-Otto Koch\, the Nazi commander of the Buchen
 wald and Majdanek concentration camps\, was sentenced to life imprisonment
  by a West German court. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 951-01-15-ilse-koch\n• 1962 – The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured)\
 , the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe\, was discovered in Macedonia 
 in northern Greece. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1962-0
 1-15-derveni-papyrus\n• 1970 – The Republic of Biafra surrendered foll
 owing a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria\, ending the Nigerian Civ
 il War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-01-15-biafra\
 n• 2001 – The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was ma
 de. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-01-15-wikipedia\n
 \nDied 1876: Eliza McCardle Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Mc
 Cardle_Johnson\nBorn 1987: Tsegaye Kebede https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts
 egaye_Kebede\nBorn 2004: Grace VanderWaal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr
 ace_VanderWaal\nDied 2025: David Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David
 _Lynch\n\nPictured: Fragment of the Derveni papyrus.
SUMMARY:📅 January 15 · Regent's Park skating disaster\, Buffalo Bill Da
 m\, Ilse Koch\, Derveni papyrus\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 16 in history:\n• 1537 – Sir Francis Bigod began an
  armed rebellion against King Henry VIII and the English Parliament. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1537-01-16-bigod-s-rebellion\n
 • 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act\, establishing the Uni
 ted States Civil Service\, was enacted by the U.S. Congress. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1883-01-16-pendleton-civil-service-refo
 rm-act\n• 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into t
 he Führerbunker in Berlin\, where he would eventually commit suicide. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-01-16-fuhrerbunker\n• 
 2016 – After gunmen took hostages the previous night at a restaurant in 
 Ouagadougou\, Burkina Faso\, government commandos stormed the premises to 
 bring the situation to an end. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-2016-01-16-2016-ouagadougou-attacks\n• 2017 – Turkish Airlines Fl
 ight 6491 crashed in Manas International Airport (aftermath pictured) afte
 r the flight overflew the entire runway\, which resulted in 39 deaths. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2017-01-16-turkish-airlines-f
 light-6491\n\nBorn 1821: John C. Breckinridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/John_C._Breckinridge\nBorn 1966: Miguel Ángel Mancera https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Mancera\nDied 2003: Susie Bootja Bootja Nap
 altjarri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Bootja_Bootja_Napaltjarri\nDi
 ed 2024: Valene L. Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valene_L._Smith\n\n
 Pictured: The aftermath of [[Turkish Airlines Flight 6491]].
SUMMARY:📅 January 16 · Bigod's rebellion\, Pendleton Civil Service Refo
 rm Act\, Führerbunker\, 2016…
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DESCRIPTION:January 17 in history:\n• 1773 – On James Cook's second voy
 age\, his vessel became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1773-01-17-second-voyage-of-
 james-cook\n• 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg\, who had saved
  thousands of Jews from the Holocaust\, was taken into Soviet custody duri
 ng the Siege of Budapest and was never seen in public again. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-01-17-raoul-wallenberg\n• 1961 
 – Three days before leaving office\, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower
  delivered a farewell speech to the nation\, in which he warned about the 
 dangers of the military–industrial complex. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1961-01-17-dwight-d-eisenhower-s-farewell-address\n•
  1989 – Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school in Stockton\, 
 California\, killing 5 and wounding 32 others. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1989-01-17-stockton-schoolyard-shooting\n• 2010 –
  The first spate of violence between Muslims and Christians began in Jos\,
  Nigeria\, and would end in more than 200 deaths. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2010-01-17-2010-jos-riots\n\nBorn 1593: William Ba
 ckhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Backhouse\nDied 1888: Big Be
 ar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bear\nDied 1996: Barbara Jordan https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan\nDied 2001: Tom Kilburn https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kilburn\n\nPictured: Raoul Wallenberg.
SUMMARY:📅 January 17 · Second voyage of James Cook\, Raoul Wallenberg\,
  Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell…
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DESCRIPTION:January 18 in history:\n• 1535 – Francisco Pizarro founded 
 Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima\, Peru) as the capital of the lands 
 he conquered for the Spanish crown. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1535-01-18-history-of-lima\n• 1915 – Japanese prime minister
  Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to incre
 ase Japan's power in East Asia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1915-01-18-twenty-one-demands\n• 1943 – World War II: In Operati
 on Iskra\, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad\, 
 partially easing the protracted German siege of the city. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-01-18-operation-iskra\n• 1958 – M
 embers of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near
  Maxton\, North Carolina\, which turned into an armed confrontation betwee
 n the two groups (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1958-01-18-battle-of-hayes-pond\n• 1983 – Singaporean communist act
 ivist Tan Chay Wa was executed\, leading to a much-publicised trial of his
  brother for engraving "subversive" material on the gravestone. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-01-18-tan-chay-wa-s-tombstone-t
 rial\n\nDied 1411: Jobst of Moravia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobst_of
 _Moravia\nBorn 1891: Clare Winger Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cla
 re_Winger_Harris\n\nPictured: Battle of Hayes Pond.
SUMMARY:📅 January 18 · History of Lima\, Twenty-One Demands\, Operation
  Iskra\, Battle of Hayes Pond\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 19 in history:\n• 1511 – War of the League of Cambr
 ai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola (depicted) after a bri
 ef siege. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1511-01-19-siege
 -of-mirandola-1511\n• 1915 – World War I: The first major attack of th
 e German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed
  several towns in Norfolk. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1915-01-19-german-bombing-of-britain-1914-1918\n• 1972 – The French n
 ewspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie\, 
 the "Butcher of Lyon"\, had been found to be living in Peru. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-01-19-klaus-barbie\n• 1975 – A
 n earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India\
 , causing extensive damage to the region. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1975-01-19-1975-kinnaur-earthquake\n• 2007 – A four-ma
 n team\, using only skis and kites\, completed a trek to reach the Souther
 n Pole of Inaccessibility\, the first people to get there since 1967\, and
  the first to do so on foot. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2007-01-19-pole-of-inaccessibility-research-station\n\nDied 1636: Marcu
 s Gheeraerts the Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Gheeraerts_t
 he_Younger\nBorn 1878: Herbert Chapman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbe
 rt_Chapman\nBorn 1949: Dennis Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_
 Taylor\nDied 1981: Francesca Woodman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances
 ca_Woodman\n\nPictured: Depiction of the aftermath of the Siege of Mirando
 la.
SUMMARY:📅 January 19 · Siege of Mirandola (1511)\, German bombing of Br
 itain\, 1914–1918\, Klaus Barbie\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 20 in history:\n• 1156 – According to legend\, Lall
 i slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjä
 rvi in Köyliö. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1156-01-2
 0-henry-bishop-of-finland\n• 1356 – Edward Balliol\, whose father John
  was briefly King of Scotland\, gave up his claim to the throne in exchang
 e for an English pension. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1356-01-20-edward-balliol\n• 1726 – J. S. Bach led the first performan
 ce of his cantata Meine Seufzer\, meine Tränen on the second Sunday after
  the Epiphany. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1726-01-20-
 johann-sebastian-bach\n• 1968 – The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bru
 ins in what became known as the "Game of the Century" (pictured)\, ending 
 the Bruins' 47-game winning streak and establishing college basketball as 
 a sports commodity on American television. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1968-01-20-game-of-the-century-college-basketball\n• 20
 09 – In Washington\, D.C.\, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first Af
 rican-American president of the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2009-01-20-first-inauguration-of-barack-obama\n\nDied
  1095: Wulfstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfstan_%28died_1095%29\nBo
 rn 1716: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacqu
 es_Barth%C3%A9lemy\nBorn 1926: David Tudor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
 avid_Tudor\n\nPictured: "Game of the Century".
SUMMARY:📅 January 20 · Henry (bishop of Finland)\, Edward Balliol\, J. 
 S. Bach led the first…
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DESCRIPTION:January 21 in history:\n• 1326 – King Edward II of England 
 issued a royal charter confirming Adam de Brome's foundation of Oriel Coll
 ege\, Oxford. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1326-01-21-o
 riel-college-oxford\n• 1931 – Isaac Isaacs (pictured) became the first
  Australian-born governor-general of Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1931-01-21-isaac-isaacs\n• 1968 – Vietnam War: T
 he People's Army of Vietnam attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base\, a U.S. Marines
  outpost in Quảng Trị province\, South Vietnam\, starting the Battle o
 f Khe Sanh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh\n• 1976 –
  Concorde\, an Anglo-French supersonic airliner\, began scheduled commerci
 al flights to London\, Paris\, Bahrain\, and Rio de Janeiro. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-01-21-concorde\n• 2011 – Demon
 strations against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the
  killings of four protesters in Tirana by the Republican Guard. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-01-21-2011-albanian-opposition-
 demonstrations\n\nBorn 1714: Anna Morandi Manzolini https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Anna_Morandi_Manzolini\nDied 1896: Phan Đình Phùng https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Ph%C3%B9ng\nBorn 1972: Yasunori Mits
 uda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Mitsuda\nBorn 2005: IShowSpeed 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IShowSpeed\n\nPictured: Isaac Isaacs.
SUMMARY:📅 January 21 · Oriel College\, Oxford\, Isaac Isaacs\, Battle o
 f Khe Sanh\, Concorde\, 2011…
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DESCRIPTION:January 22 in history:\n• 1689 – The Convention Parliament 
 met to decide the fate of the throne after James II\, the last Catholic mo
 narch of England\, fled to France following the Glorious Revolution. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1689-01-22-james-ii-of-england\
 n• 1906 – The SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Islan
 d\, Canada\, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of
  the Pacific. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1906-01-22-s
 s-valencia\n• 1969 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (pictured) survived
  what was seen as an assassination attempt\, an incident that was not reve
 aled to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1969-01-22-attempted-assassination-of-l
 eonid-brezhn\n• 1970 – The Boeing 747\, the world's first wide-body co
 mmercial airliner\, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London ro
 ute. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-01-22-boeing-747
 \n• 1979 – After surrounding Mutukula the previous day\, Tanzanian for
 ces attacked the town and caused Ugandan forces to flee. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-01-22-battle-of-mutukula\n\nDied 906: 
 Empress He https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_He_%28Tang_dynasty%29\nBo
 rn 1796: Karl Ernst Claus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_Claus\n
 Born 1906: Willa Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Brown\nDied 197
 9: Ali Hassan Salameh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_Salameh\n\n
 Pictured: Leonid Brezhnev.
SUMMARY:📅 January 22 · James II of England\, SS Valencia\, Attempted as
 sassination of Leonid Brezhnev\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 23 in history:\n• 1368 – The Hongwu Emperor (pictur
 ed) ascended the throne\, initiating the Ming dynasty\, which would rule C
 hina for three centuries. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1368-01-23-hongwu-emperor\n• 1556 – One of the deadliest earthquakes i
 n history struck Shaanxi\, China\, resulting in at least 100\,000 direct d
 eaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1556-01-23-1556-sha
 anxi-earthquake\n• 1793 – The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussi
 a partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1793-01-23-second-partition-
 of-poland\n• 1968 – USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces\, who
  claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-01-23-uss-pueblo-ager-2\n
 • 1993 – The first version of Mosaic\, created by Marc Andreessen and 
 Eric Bina\, was released\, becoming the first popular web browser. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1993-01-23-ncsa-mosaic\n\nBorn 15
 85: Mary Ward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_%28nun%29\nDied 1806
 : William Pitt the Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_
 Younger\nBorn 1915: Potter Stewart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_St
 ewart\nDied 1989: Salvador Dalí /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/fam
 ous-lives-salvador-dali-q5577\n\nPictured: Hongwu Emperor.
SUMMARY:📅 January 23 · Hongwu Emperor\, 1556 Shaanxi earthquake\, Secon
 d Partition of Poland\, USS…
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DESCRIPTION:January 24 in history:\n• 771 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat d
 edicated a 65-ton stele\, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Ma
 ya civilization\, at his city of Quiriguá. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-0771-01-24-quirigua\n• 1913 – Greek military aviator
 s Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval a
 ir mission in history\, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1913-01-24-michael-moutoussis\n• 1961 – A
  Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up 
 in mid-air near Goldsboro\, North Carolina\; one bomb was recovered intact
 \, the other disintegrated. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1961-01-24-1961-goldsboro-b-52-crash\n• 1990 – Japan launched the Hi
 ten spacecraft (pictured)\, the first lunar probe launched by a country ot
 her than the Soviet Union or the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1990-01-24-hiten-spacecraft\n\nBorn 1856: Solomon Bu
 tcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Butcher\nBorn 1968: Mary Lou R
 etton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Retton\nDied 1996: Wim Umboh 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Umboh\nDied 2021: Joseph Sonnabend https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sonnabend\n\nPictured: The Hiten spacecraf
 t.
SUMMARY:📅 January 24 · Quiriguá\, Michael Moutoussis\, 1961 Goldsboro 
 B-52 crash\, Hiten (spacecraft)
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DESCRIPTION:January 25 in history:\n• 1533 – Anne Boleyn (depicted)\, a
 lready pregnant with the future Elizabeth I\, secretly married Henry VIII 
 of England in the second of his six marriages. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1533-01-25-anne-boleyn\n• 1971 – Idi Amin seized 
 power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état\, beginning ei
 ght years of military rule. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1971-01-25-idi-amin\n• 1995 – A team of Norwegian and American scien
 tists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket\, which was mistaken by R
 ussian forces for a Trident missile. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1995-01-25-norwegian-rocket-incident\n• 2006 – Three indepe
 ndent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb\,
  a super-Earth 21\,500 ± 3\,300 light-years away from Earth near the cent
 er of the Milky Way. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-
 01-25-ogle-2005-blg-390lb\n• 2011 – Arab Spring: The Egyptian revoluti
 on began with protests on the "Day of Anger"\, eventually leading to the r
 emoval of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-01-25-timeline-of-the-egyptian
 -revolution-of-2\n\nBorn 1841: John Fisher\, 1st Baron Fisher https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher%2C_1st_Baron_Fisher\nDied 1856: John Doubled
 ay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doubleday_%28restorer%29\nDied 1981:
  Adele Astaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Astaire\nBorn 2000: Rio
  Waida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Waida\n\nPictured: Anne Boleyn.
SUMMARY:📅 January 25 · Anne Boleyn\, Idi Amin\, Norwegian rocket incide
 nt\, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 26 in history:\n• 1841 – Commodore Gordon Bremer to
 ok formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possess
 ion Point. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1841-01-26-gord
 on-bremer\n• 1926 – Oliver Hutchinson (pictured) appeared on televisio
 n in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using t
 he technology to show humans. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1926-01-26-oliver-hutchinson\n• 1972 – JAT Flight 367 exploded in 
 mid-air over Czechoslovakia\; the only survivor of the 28 on board\, fligh
 t attendant Vesna Vulović\, fell 10\,160 m (33\,330 ft)\, setting the rec
 ord for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-01-26-jat-flight-367\n• 1991 – Soma
 li Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his reb
 el group\, the United Somali Congress\, ousted President Siad Barre. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-01-26-mohamed-farrah-aidid
 \n• 2001 – An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at leas
 t 20\,000 people\, injured 167\,000 others and destroyed nearly 400\,000 h
 omes. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-01-26-2001-guja
 rat-earthquake\n\nDied 1568: Lady Katherine Grey https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Lady_Katherine_Grey\nBorn 1892: Bessie Coleman https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Bessie_Coleman\nBorn 1905: Olga Tufnell https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Olga_Tufnell\nDied 1920: Jeanne Hébuterne https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Jeanne_H%C3%A9buterne\n\nPictured: Photograph of a television picture o
 f Hutchinson.
SUMMARY:📅 January 26 · Gordon Bremer\, Oliver Hutchinson\, JAT Flight 3
 67\, Mohamed Farrah Aidid\, 2001…
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DESCRIPTION:January 27 in history:\n• 1343 – Clement VI issued the papa
 l bull Unigenitus\, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulg
 ences. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1343-01-27-pope-cle
 ment-vi\n• 1785 – The University of Georgia\, the oldest state-charter
 ed public university in the United States\, was founded. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1785-01-27-university-of-georgia\n• 1996 
 – Mahamane Ousmane\, the first democratically elected president of Niger
 \, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'
 état. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-01-27-mahamane
 -ousmane\n• 2011 – Astronomers documented H1504+65\, a white dwarf in 
 Ursa Minor (chart pictured) with the hottest surface temperature known at 
 the time\, at 200\,000 kelvins (360\,000 °F). /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2011-01-27-ursa-minor\n\nBorn 1701: Johann Nikolaus v
 on Hontheim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nikolaus_von_Hontheim\nBo
 rn 1886: Sasaki Tōichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_T%C5%8Dichi\n
 Died 1901: Giuseppe Verdi /travel/calendars/composers/events/composers-giu
 seppe-verdi-q7317\nDied 1979: Victoria Ocampo https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Victoria_Ocampo\n\nPictured: border=yes.
SUMMARY:📅 January 27 · Pope Clement VI\, University of Georgia\, Mahama
 ne Ousmane\, Ursa Minor
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DESCRIPTION:January 28 in history:\n• 1521 – Charles V and the estates 
 of the Holy Roman Empire met at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther
  and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1521-01-28-diet-of-worms\n• 1958 – The Lego Grou
 p\, a Danish toy company\, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Leg
 o bricks. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1958-01-28-lego\
 n• 1961 – In Gitarama\, Rwanda\, local and other government officials 
 initiated a coup to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-01-28-coup-of-gitarama\n
 • 1981 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petro
 leum products\, contributing to the 1980s oil glut. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1981-01-28-1980s-oil-glut\n• 1986 – The Spac
 e Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission (vide
 o featured)\, killing all seven crew members. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1986-01-28-space-shuttle-challenger-disaster\n\nBorn 1
 818: George S. Boutwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Boutwell\n
 Born 1916: Howard Wing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Wing\nDied 194
 5: Roza Shanina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina\nBorn 1981: Eli
 jah Wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Wood\n\nPictured: thumbtime=
 9.
SUMMARY:📅 January 28 · Diet of Worms\, Lego\, Coup of Gitarama\, 1980s 
 oil glut\, Space Shuttle…
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DESCRIPTION:January 29 in history:\n• 1845 – American poet Edgar Allan 
 Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror as the newspaper's first 
 publication attributed to Poe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1845-01-29-the-raven\n• 1856 – Queen Victoria introduced the Vict
 oria Cross\, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military pe
 rsonnel during the Crimean War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1856-01-29-victoria-cross\n• 1891 – Liliʻuokalani\, the last mo
 narch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom\, ascended the throne
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-01-29-lili-uokalani
 \n• 1911 – Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexi
 can Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-01-29-magonista-rebellion-of-1911\n• 
 1991 – The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the 
 Iraqi invasion of Khafji\, Saudi Arabia\, recaptured three days later by C
 oalition forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-01-2
 9-battle-of-khafji\n\nBorn 1761: Albert Gallatin https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Albert_Gallatin\nBorn 1866: Józefa Joteyko https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/J%C3%B3zefa_Joteyko\nBorn 1976: Elin Rombo https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Elin_Rombo\nDied 2016: Jean-Marie Doré https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Jean-Marie_Dor%C3%A9\n\nPictured: "The Raven" illustration by [[John Tenni
 el]].
SUMMARY:📅 January 29 · The Raven\, Victoria Cross\, Liliʻuokalani\, Ma
 gonista rebellion of 1911\, Battle…
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DESCRIPTION:January 30 in history:\n• 1661 – Two years after his death\
 , Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and hi
 s head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London\, where it r
 emained until 1685. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1661-0
 1-30-oliver-cromwell-s-head\n• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi (pictured)\, the 
 political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence moveme
 nt\, was fatally shot by Nathuram Godse at Birla House in Delhi. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1948-01-30-mahatma-gandhi\n• 1968
  – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese People's Army
  launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian command and co
 ntrol centers throughout South Vietnam. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1968-01-30-tet-offensive\n• 1979 – Varig Flight 967 disa
 ppeared shortly after takeoff from Tokyo's Narita International Airport en
  route to Rio de Janeiro. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1979-01-30-varig-flight-967\n• 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Ins
 titute launched Naro-1\, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their firs
 t launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-2013-01-30-naro-1\n\nDied 1606: Everard Digby https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Digby\nBorn 1846: Angela of the Cross https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_of_the_Cross\nBorn 1901: Rudolf Caracciola https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Caracciola\nDied 1991: John Bardeen https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen\n\nPictured: Mahatma Gandhi.
SUMMARY:📅 January 30 · Oliver Cromwell's head\, Mahatma Gandhi\, Tet Of
 fensive\, Varig Flight 967\, Naro-1
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DESCRIPTION:February 1 in history:\n• 1329 – The Teutonic Knights succe
 ssfully besieged the hillfort of Medvėgalis (pictured) in Samogitia\, Lit
 huania\, and baptised the defenders in the Catholic rite. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1329-02-01-siege-of-medvegalis\n• 1884 
 – The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary\, a 352-page volum
 e that covered words from A to ant\, was published. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1884-02-01-oxford-english-dictionary\n• 2001 
 – The Timor-Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-
 Indonesian independence movement Falintil. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-2001-02-01-timor-leste-defence-force\n• 2004 – During
  the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII\, Janet Jackson's breast was expo
 sed by Justin Timberlake in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malf
 unction"\, resulting in an immediate crackdown and widespread debate on pe
 rceived indecency in U.S. broadcasting. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-2004-02-01-super-bowl-xxxviii-halftime-show-controv\n\nBorn 
 1690: Francesco Maria Veracini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Mar
 ia_Veracini\nBorn 1763: Thomas Campbell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom
 as_Campbell_%28minister%29\nDied 1976: George Whipple https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/George_Whipple\nDied 1991: Sheila Heaney https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Sheila_Heaney\n\nPictured: [[Medvėgalis]] hillfort in 2010.
SUMMARY:📅 February 1 · Siege of Medvėgalis\, Oxford English Dictionary
 \, Timor-Leste Defence Force\,…
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DESCRIPTION:February 2 in history:\n• 506 – Alaric II\, King of the Vis
 igoths\, promulgated a collection of Roman law known as the Breviary of Al
 aric (excerpt pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0
 506-02-02-breviary-of-alaric\n• 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvani
 an peasant revolt were executed in Torda. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1438-02-02-transylvanian-peasant-revolt\n• 1659 – Jan 
 van Riebeeck\, the founder of Cape Town\, produced the first bottle of Sou
 th African wine. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1659-02-0
 2-south-african-wine\n• 1963 – Cold War in Asia: 113 alleged communist
 s were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencie
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-02-02-operation-co
 ldstore\n• 2009 – Omid\, Iran's first domestically made satellite\, wa
 s launched from Semnan Space Center. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2009-02-02-omid\n\nBorn 1536: Piotr Skarga https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Piotr_Skarga\nBorn 1576: Alix Le Clerc https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Alix_Le_Clerc\nDied 1831: Vincenzo Dimech https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Vincenzo_Dimech\nDied 2021: Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Abu_Salman_Shahjahanpuri\n\nPictured: Excerpt of the Breviary 
 of Alaric.
SUMMARY:📅 February 2 · Breviary of Alaric\, Transylvanian peasant revol
 t\, South African wine\,…
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DESCRIPTION:January 31 in history:\n• 1578 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish
  forces won a crushing victory at the Battle of Gembloux\, threatening the
  States General of the Netherlands and contributing to its move from Bruss
 els to Antwerp. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1578-01-31
 -battle-of-gembloux-1578\n• 1747 – The London Lock Hospital\, the firs
 t voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases\, 
 opened. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1747-01-31-london-
 lock-hospital\n• 1961 – Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2\, the chimpan
 zee Ham became the first hominid to be launched into outer space. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-01-31-ham-chimpanzee\n• 198
 8 – Doug Williams became the first African-American quarterback to play 
 in the Super Bowl\, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bo
 wl XXII. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1988-01-31-doug-w
 illiams-quarterback\n• 2013 – A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executiv
 e Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion (aftermath pictured) that kille
 d at least 37 people and injured another 121. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-2013-01-31-torre-ejecutiva-pemex-explosion\n\nBorn 182
 1: Zina D. H. Young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina_D._H._Young\nBorn 1
 911: Eric Burhop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Burhop\nBorn 1981: Jus
 tin Timberlake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Timberlake\nDied 2006:
  George Koval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koval\n\nPictured: Dama
 ge caused by the Pemex explosion.
SUMMARY:📅 January 31 · Battle of Gembloux (1578)\, London Lock Hospital
 \, Ham (chimpanzee)\, Doug…
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DESCRIPTION:February 3 in history:\n• 1266 – Mudéjar revolt: King Jame
 s I of Aragon entered the formerly Muslim-held city of Murcia following it
 s surrender three days earlier. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1266-02-03-conquest-of-murcia-1265-1266\n• 1813 – Argentine War 
 of Independence: José de San Martín and the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment 
 defeated Spanish royalist forces in the Battle of San Lorenzo (depicted). 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1813-02-03-battle-of-san-l
 orenzo\n• 1941 – World War II: Free French and British forces began th
 e Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian East A
 frica. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-02-03-battle-o
 f-keren\n• 1986 – Steve Jobs purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm and launch
 ed it as an independent computer-animation studio. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1986-02-03-pixar\n• 2006 – Al-Qaeda insurgenc
 y in Yemen: 23 convicts\, including several militants associated with al-Q
 aeda\, escaped from a prison administered by the Political Security Organi
 zation in Sanaa\, Yemen. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 006-02-03-2006-sanaa-prison-escape\n\nDied 1116: Coloman\, King of Hungary
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloman%2C_King_of_Hungary\nBorn 1811: Hora
 ce Greeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley\nBorn 1909: Simone
  Weil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil\nBorn 1911: Henri Claireau
 x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Claireaux\n\nPictured: Painting of t
 he Battle of San Lorenzo.
SUMMARY:📅 February 3 · Conquest of Murcia (1265–1266)\, Battle of San
  Lorenzo\, Battle of Keren\, Pixar\,…
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DESCRIPTION:February 4 in history:\n• 1801 – John Marshall\, whose cour
 t opinions helped lay the basis for U.S. constitutional law and made the S
 upreme Court a coequal branch of government\, took office as chief justice
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1801-02-04-john-marshall
 \n• 1974 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed 
 a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their f
 amily members\, killing twelve people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1974-02-04-m62-coach-bombing\n• 1998 – An earthquake regi
 stering 5.9 MW struck northern Afghanistan\, triggering landslides that ki
 lled over 2\,300 people and destroyed around 15\,000 homes. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1998-02-04-february-1998-afghanistan-ear
 thquake\n• 2008 – The London low emission zone (sign pictured)\, charg
 ing certain diesel-powered commercial vehicles to enter Greater London\, c
 ame into operation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-0
 2-04-london-low-emission-zone\n\nDied 856: Rabanus Maurus /travel/calendar
 s/writers/events/writers-rabanus-maurus-q160441\nDied 1646: Anders Bure ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Bure\nDied 1983: Karen Carpenter https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter\nDied 2021: Hy Cohen https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Cohen\n\nPictured: London low emission zone sign.
SUMMARY:📅 February 4 · John Marshall\, M62 coach bombing\, February 199
 8 Afghanistan earthquake\, London…
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DESCRIPTION:February 5 in history:\n• 1783 – The first of five strong e
 arthquakes hit the region of Calabria on the Italian Peninsula\, killing m
 ore than 32\,000 people over a period of nearly two months. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1783-02-05-1783-calabrian-earthquakes\n
 • 1869 – Prospectors in Moliagul\, Australia\, discovered the largest 
 alluvial gold nugget ever found\, known as the Welcome Stranger. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1869-02-05-welcome-stranger\n• 19
 23 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the world
  record for the highest first-class score. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1923-02-05-bill-ponsford\n• 1985 – The mayors of Cart
 hage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third P
 unic War\, 2\,134 years after it began. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1985-02-05-third-punic-war\n• 2008 – Eighty-seven tornad
 oes occurred over the course of the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak across 
 multiple U.S. states\, causing 56 deaths and over $1 billion in damage. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-02-05-2008-super-tuesda
 y-tornado-outbreak\n\nDied 1661: Shunzhi Emperor https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor\nDied 1881: Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Thomas_Carlyle\nBorn 1935: Colin Robert Chase https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Colin_Robert_Chase\nDied 1983: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff\n\nPictured: The "Welcome Strange
 r" gold nugget.
SUMMARY:📅 February 5 · 1783 Calabrian earthquakes\, Welcome Stranger\, 
 Bill Ponsford\, Third Punic War\,…
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DESCRIPTION:February 6 in history:\n• 1778 – France and the United Stat
 es signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance\, re
 spectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two natio
 ns. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1778-02-06-treaty-of-a
 lliance-1778\n• 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captu
 red or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Doming
 o (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1806-02-06-battle-of-san-domingo\n• 1918 – Conscientious obje
 ctor Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor\, England\, triggering a 
 strike over living conditions. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1918-02-06-henry-firth\n• 1951 – A train derailed while crossing 
 a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge\, New Jersey\, causing 85 deaths.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1951-02-06-woodbridge-tra
 in-derailment\n• 1976 – Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian a
 dmitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes
  to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-02-06-lockheed-bribery-scandals\n\nDie
 d 1833: Pierre André Latreille https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Andr%
 C3%A9_Latreille\nBorn 1931: Maria Mies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria
 _Mies\nBorn 1981: Juan Sartori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sartori\
 nDied 2011: Gary Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Moore\n\nPicture
 d: Battle of San Domingo.
SUMMARY:📅 February 6 · Treaty of Alliance (1778)\, Battle of San Doming
 o\, Henry Firth\, Woodbridge…
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DESCRIPTION:February 7 in history:\n• 1783 – American Revolutionary War
 : After three years and seven months\, Spain and France abandoned their at
 tempt (pictured) to capture Gibraltar from the British. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1783-02-07-great-siege-of-gibraltar\n• 194
 1 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross th
 e border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Lunca\, killing several hun
 dred people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-02-07-lu
 nca-massacre\n• 1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to s
 core a century in Test cricket. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1948-02-07-neil-harvey\n• 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude 
 Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising\, ending 28 years of on
 e-family rule in the nation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1986-02-07-jean-claude-duvalier\n• 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisi
 onal Irish Republican Army shelled 10 Downing Street with mortars in a fai
 led attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-02-07-downing-street-mortar-attac
 k\n\nBorn 1741: Henry Fuseli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fuseli\nB
 orn 1940: Tony Tan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tan\nBorn 1973: Ange
 l Aquino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Aquino\nDied 1980: Richard Wi
 lliams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williams_%28RAAF_officer%29\n
 \nPictured: Contemporary painting of the siege of Gibraltar.
SUMMARY:📅 February 7 · Great Siege of Gibraltar\, Lunca massacre\, Neil
  Harvey\, Jean-Claude Duvalier\,…
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DESCRIPTION:February 8 in history:\n• 1587 – Mary\, Queen of Scots\, wa
 s executed at Fotheringhay Castle for her involvement in the Babington Plo
 t to murder her cousin\, Elizabeth I of England. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1587-02-08-mary-queen-of-scots\n• 1910 – Willia
 m D. Boyce established the Boy Scouts of America\, expanding the Scout Mov
 ement into the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1910-02-08-william-d-boyce\n• 1965 – After taking evasive action t
 o avoid a mid-air collision just after taking off from New York's John F. 
 Kennedy International Airport\, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into 
 the Atlantic Ocean\, killing all 84 people on board. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1965-02-08-eastern-air-lines-flight-663\n• 19
 79 – Denis Sassou Nguesso (pictured) was chosen as the new President of 
 the Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from powe
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-02-08-denis-sassou
 -nguesso\n• 1981 – Rhodesian Bush War: Zimbabwe African National Liber
 ation Army cadres in Gwelo attacked Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army t
 roops\, killing over 60 of them and starting the 1981 Entumbane uprising. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-02-08-1981-entumbane-
 uprising\n\nBorn 1591: Guercino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guercino\nBo
 rn 1831: Rebecca Lee Crumpler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Lee_Cr
 umpler\nDied 1921: Peter Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kro
 potkin\nBorn 2006: Emman Atienza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emman_Atien
 za\n\nPictured: Denis Sassou Nguesso.
SUMMARY:📅 February 8 · Mary\, Queen of Scots\, William D. Boyce\, Easte
 rn Air Lines Flight 663\, Denis…
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DESCRIPTION:February 9 in history:\n• 1861 – Jefferson Davis was named 
 the provisional president of the Confederate States of America. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1861-02-09-jefferson-davis\n• 1971
  – An earthquake registering 6.6 Mw struck the northern San Fernando Val
 ley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar\, killing 65 people. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-02-09-1971-san-fernando-earthq
 uake\n• 1976 – The Australian Defence Force (ensign pictured) was form
 ed by the integration of the Australian Army\, the Royal Australian Navy\,
  and the Royal Australian Air Force. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1976-02-09-australian-defence-force\n• 1996 – Breaking a se
 venteen-month ceasefire\, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated 
 a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands\, killing two people and inj
 uring more than a hundred others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1996-02-09-1996-docklands-bombing\n• 2001 – The American subma
 rine collided with the Ehime Maru\, a Japanese training vessel operated by
  a high school\, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-02-09-ehime-maru-and
 -uss-greeneville-collision\n\nDied 1450: Agnès Sorel https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Sorel\nBorn 1896: Alberto Vargas https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Alberto_Vargas\nBorn 1931: Philipp Harnoncourt https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Philipp_Harnoncourt\nBorn 1981: Tom Hiddleston https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hiddleston\n\nPictured: [[Australian Defence Force Ens
 ign]].
SUMMARY:📅 February 9 · Jefferson Davis\, 1971 San Fernando earthquake\,
  Australian Defence Force\, 1996…
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DESCRIPTION:February 16 in history:\n• 1270 – Livonian Crusade: In the 
 Battle of Karuse\, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved a decisive victor
 y over the Livonian Order on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1270-02-16-battle-of-karuse\n• 
 1900 – The Southern Cross Expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink (pictur
 ed) achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S\, making the first landing 
 at the Great Ice Barrier. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1900-02-16-carsten-borchgrevink\n• 1936 – The Popular Front\, a coalit
 ion of left-wing parties\, came to power in the Spanish general election\,
  a factor in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War five months later. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-02-16-1936-spanish-genera
 l-election\n• 1961 – The DuSable Museum\, the first museum dedicated t
 o the study and conservation of African American history\, culture\, and a
 rt\, was chartered. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-0
 2-16-dusable-black-history-museum\n• 2013 – At least 91 people were ki
 lled and 190 others injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded a
 t a market in Hazara Town\, Pakistan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2013-02-16-february-2013-quetta-bombing\n\nBorn 1953: Roberta 
 Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams\nBorn 1979: Valent
 ino Rossi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_Rossi\nBorn 2000: Yan Bi
 ngtao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Bingtao\nDied 2016: Boutros Boutro
 s-Ghali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali\n\nPictured: C
 arsten Borchgrevink.
SUMMARY:📅 February 16 · Battle of Karuse\, Carsten Borchgrevink\, 1936 
 Spanish general election\, DuSable…
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DESCRIPTION:February 10 in history:\n• 1906 – The Royal Navy battleship
  HMS Dreadnought was launched\, representing such a marked advance in nava
 l technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation
  of battleships. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1906-02-1
 0-hms-dreadnought-1906\n• 1936 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: The Battl
 e of Amba Aradam began\, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical vic
 tory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army 
 as a fighting force. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-
 02-10-battle-of-amba-aradam\n• 1940 – Puss Gets the Boot\, the first T
 om and Jerry cartoon\, was released to theaters. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1940-02-10-puss-gets-the-boot\n• 1941 – In the 
 first airborne operation undertaken by the British military\, a small forc
 e of paratroopers landed near Calitri\, Italy\, to destroy an aqueduct. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-02-10-operation-colossu
 s\n• 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul\, the first of South Korea's N
 ational Treasures\, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured). /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-02-10-2008-namdaemun-fire\
 n\nBorn 1878: Guillermo Trujillo Durán https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guil
 lermo_Trujillo_Dur%C3%A1n\nDied 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen\nBorn 1951: Bob Iger https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Bob_Iger\nBorn 1971: Lisa Marie Varon https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Lisa_Marie_Varon\n\nPictured: Namdaemun gate during the arson event.
SUMMARY:📅 February 10 · HMS Dreadnought (1906)\, Battle of Amba Aradam\
 , Puss Gets the Boot\, Operation…
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DESCRIPTION:February 11 in history:\n• 1584 – Spanish explorer Pedro Sa
 rmiento de Gamboa founded the town of Nombre de Jesús\, the first of two 
 short-lived colonies at the Strait of Magellan. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1584-02-11-spanish-colonization-attempt-of-the-stra\
 n• 1823 – Around 110 boys were killed in a human crush at the Convent 
 of the Minori Osservanti (corridor pictured) in Valletta on the last day o
 f the Maltese Carnival. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 23-02-11-carnival-tragedy-of-1823\n• 1938 – The BBC aired an adaptatio
 n of a section of Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first bro
 adcast of science fiction on television. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1938-02-11-r-u-r\n• 2015 – Turkish student Özgecan Asl
 an was murdered during a rape attempt\, sparking mass demonstrations acros
 s the country after her body was discovered two days later. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-02-11-murder-of-ozgecan-aslan\n• 
 2018 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashed shortly after take-off in Rus
 sia due to icing conditions\, killing all 71 people on board. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2018-02-11-saratov-airlines-flight-703
 \n\nBorn 1900: Ellen Broe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Broe\nBorn 1
 946: Heinz Winbeck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Winbeck\nBorn 1981:
  Kelly Rowland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Rowland\n\nPictured: Lo
 cation of the Carnival tragedy of 1823.
SUMMARY:📅 February 11 · Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of M
 agellan\, Carnival tragedy of…
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DESCRIPTION:February 12 in history:\n• 1894 – Ère des attentats: In on
 e of the first acts of modern terrorism\, Émile Henry threw a bomb into C
 afé Terminus in Paris\, France\, killing one person and injuring 17 more.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1894-02-12-cafe-terminus-
 attack\n• 1935 – USS Macon\, one of the largest helium-filled airships
  ever created\, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1935-02-12-uss-macon-zrs
 -5\n• 1993 – Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Sh
 opping Centre in Bootle\, England\, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys\,
  who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1993-02-12-murder-of-james-b
 ulger\n• 2019 – After being informed that its recently purchased coffi
 n of Nedjemankh (pictured) had been looted\, the Metropolitan Museum of Ar
 t shuttered its ongoing exhibition Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin two mo
 nths early and later returned the artifact to Egypt. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-2019-02-12-coffin-of-nedjemankh\n• 2016 – I
 n the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Rus
 sian Orthodox Church\, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed 
 the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2016-02-12-joint-declaration-o
 f-pope-francis-and-pa\n\nDied 941: Wulfhelm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Wulfhelm\nDied 1578: Pari Khan Khanum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_K
 han_Khanum\nBorn 1776: Mary Young Pickersgill https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Mary_Young_Pickersgill\nBorn 1946: Jean Eyeghé Ndong https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Jean_Eyegh%C3%A9_Ndong\n\nPictured: The coffin of Nedjemankh.
SUMMARY:📅 February 12 · Café Terminus attack\, USS Macon (ZRS-5)\, Mur
 der of James Bulger\, coffin of…
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DESCRIPTION:February 13 in history:\n• 1692 – Members of Clan MacDonald
  of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands were massacred\, allegedly for faili
 ng to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs\, William III and Mary II. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1692-02-13-massacre-of-glenco
 e\n• 1960 – African-American college students staged the first of the 
 Nashville sit-ins (sign at protest pictured) at three lunch counters in Na
 shville\, Tennessee\, as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to en
 d racial segregation in the U.S. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1960-02-13-nashville-sit-ins\n• 1981 – Explosions caused by the
  ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than of sewer lines in Louisvill
 e\, Kentucky\, United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1981-02-13-louisville-sewer-explosions\n• 1991 – Gulf War: The Uni
 ted States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid
  shelter in Baghdad\, Iraq\, which was believed to be a military command s
 ite\, killing at least 408 civilians. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1991-02-13-amiriyah-shelter-bombing\n• 2010 – A terrorist 
 bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune\, India\, killed 17 p
 eople and injured 60 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2010-02-13-2010-pune-bombing\n\nDied 1141: Béla II of Hungary https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_II_of_Hungary\nDied 1591: Luis de Carvajal
  y de la Cueva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Carvajal_y_de_la_Cuev
 a\nBorn 1911: Faiz Ahmad Faiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiz_Ahmad_Fai
 z\nBorn 1980: Mami Kawada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mami_Kawada\n\nPic
 tured: [[Rodney N. Powell]] at a [[Nashville sit-ins.
SUMMARY:📅 February 13 · Massacre of Glencoe\, Nashville sit-ins\, Louis
 ville sewer explosions\, Amiriyah…
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DESCRIPTION:February 14 in history:\n• 1779 – American Revolutionary Wa
 r: At the Battle of Kettle Creek\, a militia of Patriots decisively defeat
 ed and scattered a Loyalist militia that was on its way to British-control
 led Augusta\, Georgia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-177
 9-02-14-battle-of-kettle-creek\n• 1895 – Oscar Wilde's The Importance 
 of Being Earnest (production pictured)\, once described as the second-most
  quoted English-language play after Hamlet\, premiered in London. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1895-02-14-the-importance-of-being
 -earnest\n• 1916 – World War I: Britain\, France and Russia made the D
 eclaration of Sainte-Adresse\, stating that they would refuse to sign any 
 peace treaty with the Central Powers that failed to ensure the political a
 nd economic independence of Belgium. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1916-02-14-declaration-of-sainte-adresse\n• 1961 – Lawrenci
 um\, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103\, was first 
 synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the Univ
 ersity of California\, Berkeley. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1961-02-14-lawrencium\n• 2011 – Arab Spring: On the Day of Rage
 \, Bahraini youths began an uprising against the government in 55 marches 
 across 25 locations. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-
 02-14-day-of-rage-bahrain\n\nBorn 1891: Katherine Stinson https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stinson\nBorn 1921: Hazel McCallion https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion\nBorn 1946: Pam McConnell https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Pam_McConnell\nDied 2021: Doug Mountjoy https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Doug_Mountjoy\n\nPictured: First production of ''The Importance 
 of Being Earnest''.
SUMMARY:📅 February 14 · Battle of Kettle Creek\, The Importance of Bein
 g Earnest\, Declaration of…
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DESCRIPTION:February 15 in history:\n• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars
 : The invasion of Ceylon ended with Johan van Angelbeek\, the Batavian gov
 ernor of the island\, surrendering Colombo to British forces. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1796-02-15-invasion-of-ceylon\n• 190
 6 – A team of Italian archaeologists led by Ernesto Schiaparelli discove
 red the tomb of Kha and Merit (pictured)\, an ancient Egyptian foreman and
  his wife\, in the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1906-02-15-ernesto-schiaparelli\n• 1961 
 – All 72 people on board Sabena Flight 548\, including the entire U.S. f
 igure-skating team\, and one person on the ground were killed when the air
 craft crashed on approach to Brussels Airport. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1961-02-15-sabena-flight-548\n• 1976 – The first 
 constitution since the Cuban Revolution\, providing for a system of govern
 ment and law based on those of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries
 \, was adopted by a national referendum. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1976-02-15-constitution-of-cuba\n• 1996 – A Long March 
 3B rocket carrying the communications satellite Intelsat 708 crashed immed
 iately after launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center\, China\, des
 troying a nearby town and killing an unknown number of inhabitants. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-02-15-intelsat-708\n\nDied 
 1776: John Caesar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caesar\nBorn 1811: Do
 mingo Faustino Sarmiento https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Faustino_Sa
 rmiento\nBorn 1850: Sophie Bryant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bry
 ant\nBorn 1921: Norman C. Deno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_C._Den
 o\n\nPictured: Painted scene from a box found in the [[tomb of Kha and Mer
 it]].
SUMMARY:📅 February 15 · invasion of Ceylon\, tomb of Kha and Merit\, Sa
 bena Flight 548\, Constitution of…
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DESCRIPTION:February 17 in history:\n• 1621 – Myles Standish was electe
 d the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1621-02-17-myles-standish\n• 1838 – Gre
 at Trek: Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers\, Khoekhoe\, and Basu
 to near present-day Weenen\, South Africa. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1838-02-17-weenen-massacre\n• 1913 – The Armory Show 
 (commemorative button pictured)\, the first large modern-art exhibition in
  the United States\, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1913-02-17-armory-show\n
 • 1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried o
 ut a bombing of a restaurant near Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, killing twe
 lve people and injuring thirty others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1978-02-17-la-mon-restaurant-bombing\n• 1996 – An earthqu
 ake with a moment magnitude of 8.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX 
 (Violent occurred in the New Guinea Trench\, which generated a tsunami tha
 t killed 108 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-
 02-17-1996-biak-earthquake\n\nDied 1371: Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Alexander_of_Bulgaria\nBorn 1881: Mary Carson
  Breckinridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carson_Breckinridge\nBorn
  1926: Friedrich Cerha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Cerha\nBorn
  1991: Jeremy Allen White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allen_White
 \n\nPictured: Commemorative button of the [[Armory Show]].
SUMMARY:📅 February 17 · Myles Standish\, Weenen massacre\, Armory Show\
 , La Mon restaurant bombing\, 1996…
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DESCRIPTION:February 18 in history:\n• 1268 – Northern Crusades: The Ba
 ttle of Wesenberg (depicted) took place between Novgorodian and Pskovian f
 orces against the Livonian Order and its allies\, ending with Russian forc
 es retreating from Danish Estonia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1268-02-18-battle-of-wesenberg-1268\n• 1766 – Enslaved Malaga
 sy captives on the Dutch East India Company slave ship Meermin began a mut
 iny that led to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day Sout
 h Africa and the recapture of the instigators. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1766-02-18-meermin-slave-mutiny\n• 1943 – The cor
 e members of the White Rose\, an anti-Nazi resistance group\, were arreste
 d by the Gestapo. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-02-
 18-white-rose\n• 1946 – President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescissio
 n Act\, annulling benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U
 .S. during World War II. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 946-02-18-rescission-act\n• 2001 – American FBI agent Robert Hanssen w
 as arrested for having spied for the KGB and GRU over a 22-year period. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-02-18-robert-hanssen\n\
 nBorn 1626: Francesco Redi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Redi\nD
 ied 1743: Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_M
 aria_Luisa_de%27_Medici\nBorn 1931: Toni Morrison https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Toni_Morrison\nBorn 1933: Bobby Robson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Bobby_Robson\n\nPictured: 16th century depiction of the Battle of Wesenbe
 rg.
SUMMARY:📅 February 18 · Battle of Wesenberg (1268)\, Meermin slave muti
 ny\, White Rose\, Rescission Act\,…
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DESCRIPTION:February 19 in history:\n• 1600 – Huaynaputina\, a stratovo
 lcano in present-day Peru\, produced the largest recorded volcanic explosi
 on in South America. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1600-
 02-19-huaynaputina\n• 1931 – The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
  (flag pictured) was dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Sovie
 t Socialist Republic\, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within G
 eorgia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1931-02-19-sociali
 st-soviet-republic-of-abkhazia\n• 1942 – A book-burning was held and p
 oliticians were arrested in Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, Canada\, as part of a si
 mulated Nazi invasion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-194
 2-02-19-if-day\n• 2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva R
 osita\, Mexico\, trapped and killed 65 miners. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2006-02-19-pasta-de-conchos-mine-disaster\n• 2011 
 – Items from the Belitung shipwreck\, the largest single collection of T
 ang-dynasty artefacts found in one location\, were first exhibited in Sing
 apore. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-02-19-belitung
 -shipwreck\n• 2026 – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first membe
 r of the British royal family to be arrested in 379 years. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2026-02-19-andrew-mountbatten-windsor\n\n
 Died 1716: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothe_
 Engelbretsdatter\nBorn 1895: Mary Dilys Glynne https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Mary_Dilys_Glynne\nBorn 1926: György Kurtág https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kurt%C3%A1g\nBorn 1938: Choekyi Gyaltsen\, 10th Panchen L
 ama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choekyi_Gyaltsen%2C_10th_Panchen_Lama\n\
 nPictured: Flag of the [[Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia]].
SUMMARY:📅 February 19 · Huaynaputina\, Socialist Soviet Republic of Abk
 hazia\, If Day\, Pasta de Conchos…
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DESCRIPTION:February 23 in history:\n• 1725 – Johann Sebastian Bach pre
 miered his Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian\, Duke of Saxe-W
 eissenfels (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-172
 5-02-23-entfliehet-verschwindet-entweichet-ihr-s\n• 1854 – The Orange 
 River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein\, with the United Kingdom agre
 eing to recognise the independence of the Orange Free State in present-day
  South Africa. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1854-02-23-
 orange-river-convention\n• 1886 – American inventor Charles Martin Hal
 l discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminium. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1886-02-23-charles-martin-hall\n• 1987 
 – SN 1987A\, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to st
 udy in great detail\, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magel
 lanic Cloud. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1987-02-23-sn
 -1987a\n• 2021 – Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons\, caused by gang riv
 alries\, resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2021-02-23-february-2021-ecuadorian-prison-riots\n\nB
 orn 1133: al-Zafir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/al-Zafir\nBorn 1924: Alla
 n MacLeod Cormack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_MacLeod_Cormack\nDie
 d 1934: Edward Elgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar\nBorn 1997
 : Shiena Nishizawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiena_Nishizawa\n\nPictu
 red: Christian\, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.
SUMMARY:📅 February 23 · Entfliehet\, verschwindet\, entweichet\, ihr So
 rgen\, BWV 249a\, Orange River…
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DESCRIPTION:February 24 in history:\n• 1711 – George Frideric Handel's 
 Rinaldo\, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the Lo
 ndon stage\, premiered. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-17
 11-02-24-rinaldo-opera\n• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The British invasion
  of Martinique ended with the unconditional surrender of French admiral Lo
 uis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (pictured)\, beginning a five-year occupati
 on of the island. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1809-02-
 24-invasion-of-martinique-1809\n• 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Uganda
 n government forces fled Masaka as the Tanzania People's Defence Force bom
 barded and captured the town. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1979-02-24-battle-of-masaka\n• 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811 e
 xperienced uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International
  Airport\, Hawaii\, blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine pas
 sengers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-02-24-united
 -airlines-flight-811\n\nDied 616: Æthelberht of Kent https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/%C3%86thelberht_of_Kent\nBorn 1933: Judah Folkman https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman\nBorn 1951: Gabriele Schnaut https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Schnaut\nDied 2002: Leo Ornstein https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Leo_Ornstein\n\nPictured: Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse.
SUMMARY:📅 February 24 · Rinaldo (opera)\, Invasion of Martinique (1809)
 \, Battle of Masaka\, United…
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DESCRIPTION:February 25 in history:\n• 1843 – Royal Navy captain Lord G
 eorge Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1843-02-25-paulet-affair\n• 19
 33 – (pictured)\, the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft 
 carrier\, was launched. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 33-02-25-uss-ranger-cv-4\n• 1951 – After being postponed due to World 
 War II\, the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games opened in Buenos 
 Aires\, Argentina. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1951-02
 -25-pan-american-games\n• 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein op
 ened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of
  the Patriarchs\, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-02-25-cave-of-the-patriarchs-massa
 cre\n• 2009 – At their headquarters in Pilkhana\, members of the Bangl
 adesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-02-25-bangladesh-rifles-revolt\n\nBorn 
 1806: Emma Catherine Embury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Catherine_E
 mbury\nDied 1934: Elizabeth Gertrude Britton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Elizabeth_Gertrude_Britton\nBorn 1974: Divya Bharti https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Divya_Bharti\nDied 2001: Don Bradman https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Don_Bradman\n\nPictured: USS ''Ranger''.
SUMMARY:📅 February 25 · Paulet affair\, (pictured)\, the United States 
 Navy's first purpose-built…
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DESCRIPTION:February 26 in history:\n• 1914 – RMS Britannic\, the third
  and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line after RMS Ol
 ympic and RMS Titanic\, was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Be
 lfast. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-02-26-hmhs-bri
 tannic\n• 1979 – The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with A
 mtrak. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-02-26-superlin
 er-railcar\n• 1995 – Barings Bank\, the oldest merchant bank in London
 \, was declared insolvent after its head derivatives trader in Singapore\,
  Nick Leeson\, lost £827 million while making unauthorised trades on futu
 res contracts. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-02-26-
 barings-bank\n• 2014 – Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper M
 ing Pao Kevin Lau was stabbed\, prompting concerns and protests about medi
 a freedom. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-02-26-knif
 e-attack-on-kevin-lau\n\nDied 1474: Eom Heung-do https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Eom_Heung-do\nBorn 1629: Archibald Campbell\, 9th Earl of Argyll http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell%2C_9th_Earl_of_Argyll\nBorn 1
 954: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo
 %C4%9Fan\nDied 1981: Jennie Smillie Robertson https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Jennie_Smillie_Robertson\n\nPictured: Nabonassar's name in Akkadian.
SUMMARY:📅 February 26 · HMHS Britannic\, Superliner (railcar)\, Barings
  Bank\, Knife attack on Kevin Lau
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DESCRIPTION:February 27 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary Wa
 r: A Patriot victory at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the
  arrests of 850 Loyalists over the following days. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1776-02-27-battle-of-moore-s-creek-bridge\n• 18
 14 – Peninsular War: In the south of France\, Spanish\, British and Port
 uguese soldiers under the command of the Marquess of Wellington defeated F
 rench soldiers in the Battle of Orthez\, causing the French to retreat eas
 t. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1814-02-27-battle-of-or
 thez\n• 1988 – The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the
  target of a violent pogrom (memorial pictured). /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1988-02-27-sumgait-pogrom\n• 1996 – The multime
 dia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the video games Po
 cket Monsters Red and Green. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1996-02-27-pokemon\n\nDied 1167: Robert of Melun https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Robert_of_Melun\nBorn 1869: Alice Hamilton https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Alice_Hamilton\nDied 1956: Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Vasudev_Mavalankar\nBorn 1984: Leah Poulton https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Poulton\n\nPictured: Memorial to the victims o
 f the Sumgait pogrom.
SUMMARY:📅 February 27 · Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge\, Battle of Orth
 ez\, Sumgait pogrom\, Pokémon
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DESCRIPTION:February 28 in history:\n• 1897 – Ranavalona III (pictured)
 \, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar\, was deposed by 
 French military forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 97-02-28-ranavalona-iii\n• 1928 – Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his
  colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering\, for which h
 e later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1928-02-28-c-v-raman\n• 1975 –
  A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate statio
 n\, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1975-02-28-moorgate-tube-crash\n• 2002 – Durin
 g a period of religious violence in Gujarat\, India\, mobs of Hindus attac
 ked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura\, resulting in 166 deaths. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2002-02-28-naroda-patiya-m
 assacre\n\nBorn 1535: Cornelius Gemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel
 ius_Gemma\nBorn 1833: Alfred von Schlieffen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Alfred_von_Schlieffen\nBorn 1924: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft%26nbsp%3BJr.\nDied 1991: Koesbini http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koesbini\n\nPictured: Ranavalona III of Madagasc
 ar.
SUMMARY:📅 February 28 · Ranavalona III\, C. V. Raman\, Moorgate tube cr
 ash\, Naroda Patiya massacre
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DESCRIPTION:February 20 in history:\n• 1816 – The Barber of Seville\, a
 n opera buffa composed by Gioachino Rossini\, premiered at the Teatro Arge
 ntina in Rome to jeers from the audience. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1816-02-20-the-barber-of-seville\n• 1846 – Polish insu
 rgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising (depicted) attempting t
 o incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austri
 an Empire nine days later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1846-02-20-krakow-uprising\n• 1931 – Paraguayan anarchists briefly se
 ized the city of Encarnación as part of a larger plan to initiate a socia
 l revolution in the country. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1931-02-20-taking-of-encarnacion\n• 1943 – The Saturday Evening Pos
 t published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms\, among the most 
 widely distributed paintings ever produced\, in support of U.S. president 
 Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1943-02-20-four-freedoms-rockwell\n• 1965 – The NASA spac
 ecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7\,137 photographs of the Moon in t
 he final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned into Mare Tr
 anquillitatis. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-02-20-
 ranger-8\n\nBorn 1784: Judith Montefiore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud
 ith_Montefiore\nBorn 1923: Forbes Burnham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo
 rbes_Burnham\nDied 1961: Percy Grainger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perc
 y_Grainger\nDied 1996: Audrey Munson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_
 Munson\n\nPictured: Depiction of the Kraków Uprising.
SUMMARY:📅 February 20 · The Barber of Seville\, Kraków Uprising\, Taki
 ng of Encarnación\, Four Freedoms…
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DESCRIPTION:February 21 in history:\n• 1828 – The inaugural issue of th
 e Cherokee Phoenix\, the first newspaper in a Native American language\, w
 as published. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1828-02-21-c
 herokee-phoenix\n• 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the firs
 t woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1866-02-21-lucy-hobbs-taylor\n• 1919 – Bav
 arian socialist Kurt Eisner\, who had organized the German Revolution that
  overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic\
 , was assassinated. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1919-0
 2-21-kurt-eisner\n• 1929 – Nanjing decade: In the first battle of the 
 Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist governm
 ent of China\, a 24\,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was def
 eated at Zhifu by 7\,000 NRA troops. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1929-02-21-warlord-rebellion-in-northeastern-shando\n• 1973 
 – After accidentally straying into the airspace of the Israeli-occupied 
 Sinai Peninsula\, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Isr
 aeli fighter aircraft\, killing 108 of the 113 people on board. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1973-02-21-libyan-arab-airlines-flig
 ht-114\n\nBorn 1860: Goscombe John https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goscombe_
 John\nBorn 1961: Rhonda Sing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda_Sing\nDi
 ed 1986: Helen Hooven Santmyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hooven_
 Santmyer\nDied 1991: Margot Fonteyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_F
 onteyn\n\nPictured: Lucy Hobbs Taylor.
SUMMARY:📅 February 21 · Cherokee Phoenix\, Lucy Hobbs Taylor\, Kurt Eis
 ner\, Warlord Rebellion in…
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DESCRIPTION:February 22 in history:\n• 1371 – Robert II became King of 
 Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1371-02-22-robert-ii-of-scotland\n• 1959 – L
 ee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500\, a NASCAR auto race at 
 the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Florida. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-02-22-1959-daytona-500\n• 1974 – 
 Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington Intern
 ational Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to 
 assassinate U.S. president Richard Nixon\, but he was stopped by police. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-02-22-samuel-byck\n•
  2006 – Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securi
 tas depot in Tonbridge\, Kent\, United Kingdom. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-2006-02-22-securitas-depot-robbery\n• 2019 – A g
 roup broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid\, Spain\, and stole sev
 eral mobile telephones and digital storage devices. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-2019-02-22-north-korean-embassy-in-madrid-incide
 nt\n\nBorn 1631: Peder Syv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Syv\nBorn 1
 819: James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowe
 ll\nBorn 1928: Clarence 13X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_13X\nBo
 rn 1959: Bronwyn Oliver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn_Oliver\n\nPi
 ctured: Daytona International Speedway.
SUMMARY:📅 February 22 · Robert II of Scotland\, 1959 Daytona 500\, Samu
 el Byck\, Securitas depot robbery\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 1 in history:\n• 1562 – An attempt by François\, Duk
 e of Guise\, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy\, France\,
  turned into a massacre\, resulting in 50 dead\, and starting the French W
 ars of Religion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1562-03-0
 1-massacre-of-vassy\n• 1869 – The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pi
 ctured) finished his design of the first periodic table. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1869-03-01-dmitri-mendeleev\n• 1921 – T
 he Australian cricket team\, led by Warwick Armstrong\, became the first t
 eam to complete a whitewash in the Ashes\, an achievement that would not b
 e repeated for 86 years. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 921-03-01-warwick-armstrong\n• 1992 – A Bosnian-Serb wedding processio
 n was attacked in Sarajevo\, resulting in what is widely considered the fi
 rst casualty of the Bosnian War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1992-03-01-sarajevo-wedding-attack\n\nDied 1734: Roger North https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_North_%28biographer%29\nBorn 1924: Deke Slay
 ton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_Slayton\nBorn 1959: Nick Griffin ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin\nDied 1979: Mustafa Barzani https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Barzani\n\nPictured: Dmitri Mendeleev.
SUMMARY:📅 March 1 · Massacre of Vassy\, periodic table\, Warwick Armstr
 ong\, Sarajevo wedding attack
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DESCRIPTION:March 2 in history:\n• 1836 – Texas Revolution: At a conven
 tion of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos\, the Mexican state of Texas
  adopted a declaration of independence\, establishing the Republic of Texa
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1836-03-02-convention-o
 f-1836\n• 1965 – The Sound of Music (poster pictured) was released in 
 American theatres\; it became the highest-grossing film until 1971. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-03-02-the-sound-of-music-fi
 lm\n• 1970 – The Rhodesian monarchy was abolished by the government of
  Rhodesia\, which declared the internationally unrecognised country to be 
 a republic. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-03-02-que
 en-of-rhodesia\n• 1995 – Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced
  the discovery of the top quark\, the most massive of all observed element
 ary particles. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-03-02-
 fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory\n• 2014 – The Oscar selfie\, con
 sidered to be one of the most influential photographs of all time\, was ta
 ken at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-2014-03-02-oscar-selfie\n\nBorn 1866: Margaret Sibella Brow
 n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sibella_Brown\nBorn 1876: James A
 . Gilmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Gilmore\nBorn 1901: Grete
  Hermann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann\nBorn 1981: Bryce Dal
 las Howard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Dallas_Howard\n\nPictured: 
 Poster for ''The Sound of Music''.
SUMMARY:📅 March 2 · Convention of 1836\, The Sound of Music (film)\, Qu
 een of Rhodesia\, top quark\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 3 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: S
 amuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Prov
 idence in the Bahamas and began a raid of Nassau\, capturing the port the 
 next day. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-03-03-samue
 l-nicholas\n• 1875 – The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at
  the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of 
 McGill University. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1875-03
 -03-first-indoor-ice-hockey-game\n• 1933 – The first Nazi concentratio
 n camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arre
 st of German Communists. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 933-03-03-nohra-concentration-camp\n• 1945 – A Polish Home Army unit m
 assacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma\, Poland. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-03-03-pawlokoma-massacre\n•
  1986 – The American heavy metal band Metallica (pictured) released thei
 r third studio album\, Master of Puppets\, considered one of the greatest 
 in the genre's history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 86-03-03-master-of-puppets\n\nDied 1616: Matthias de l'Obel https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_de_l%27Obel\nBorn 1955: Michele Singer Reiner htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Singer_Reiner\nDied 1981: Rebecca Lance
 field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Lancefield\nDied 2001: Maija I
 sola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Isola\n\nPictured: Metallica in 2
 024.
SUMMARY:📅 March 3 · raid of Nassau\, First indoor ice hockey game\, Noh
 ra concentration camp\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 4 in history:\n• 1386 – Jogaila\, Grand Duke of Lithu
 ania\, was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło (pictured)\
 , beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1386-03-04-wladyslaw-ii-jagiello\n• 1773 – Wolfgang Amadeu
 s Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three journeys there. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1773-03-04-mozart-in-italy\n• 
 1899 – Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay\, Queensland\, killing more th
 an 300 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in Australian hist
 ory. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1899-03-04-cyclone-ma
 hina\n• 1918 – A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston\, Kans
 as\, United States\, conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish f
 lu pandemic. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1918-03-04-sp
 anish-flu\n• 2017 – Construction began on a statue of the Buddha at Wa
 t Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-2017-03-04-wat-paknam-bhasicharoen\n\nBorn 1519: Hindal Mirza http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindal_Mirza\nBorn 1907: Rosalind Pitt-Rivers ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Pitt-Rivers\nBorn 1936: Aribert Reima
 nn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aribert_Reimann\nDied 2008: Gary Gygax ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax\n\nPictured: Władysław&nbsp\;II J
 agiełło.
SUMMARY:📅 March 4 · Władysław II Jagiełło\, Mozart in Italy\, Cyclo
 ne Mahina\, Spanish flu\, Wat…
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DESCRIPTION:March 5 in history:\n• 1811 – Peninsular War: At the Battle
  of Barrosa\, Anglo-Iberian forces trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defe
 ated a French attack but could not break the siege itself. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1811-03-05-battle-of-barrosa\n• 1825 
 – Roberto Cofresí\, one of the last Caribbean pirates\, was apprehended
  after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1825-03-05-roberto-cofresi\n• 1936 –
  The prototype (pictured) of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first t
 ime. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-03-05-supermarin
 e-spitfire\n• 1981 – The ZX81\, a pioneering British home computer\, w
 as launched by Sinclair Research\, and went on to sell more than 1.5 milli
 on units around the world. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1981-03-05-zx81\n\nBorn 1713: Edward Cornwallis https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Edward_Cornwallis\nDied 1877: J. R. Kealoha https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/J._R._Kealoha\nDied 1966: Anna Akhmatova https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Anna_Akhmatova\nDied 2014: Ailsa McKay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ail
 sa_McKay\n\nPictured: Prototype Spitfire K5054.
SUMMARY:📅 March 5 · Battle of Barrosa\, Roberto Cofresí\, Supermarine 
 Spitfire\, ZX81
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DESCRIPTION:March 6 in history:\n• 845 – The Abbasid Caliphate executed
  42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 83
 8 for refusing to convert to Islam. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-0845-03-06-42-martyrs-of-amorium\n• 1447 – Tommaso Parentuce
 lli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1447-03-06-pope-nicholas-v\n• 1904 – Scottish Nation
 al Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce (pictured)\, the Anta
 rctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1904-03-06-william-speirs-bruce\n• 1988 
 – The Troubles: In Operation Flavius\, the Special Air Service killed th
 ree volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army conspiring to bomb
  a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1988-03-06-operation-flavius\n• 2000 – The Mar
 ine Parade Community Building\, the mural cladding of which is the largest
  installation art in Singapore\, was opened. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2000-03-06-marine-parade-community-building\n\nBorn 189
 2: Clark Shaughnessy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Shaughnessy\nBorn
  1897: Joseph Berchtold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Berchtold\nBo
 rn 1949: Shaukat Aziz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaukat_Aziz\nBorn 200
 1: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoi_Sadowski-Synnott
 \n\nPictured: William Speirs Bruce.
SUMMARY:📅 March 6 · 42 Martyrs of Amorium\, Pope Nicholas V\, William S
 peirs Bruce\, Operation…
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DESCRIPTION:March 7 in history:\n• 1850 – United States senator Daniel 
 Webster (pictured) delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery\, w
 hich proved to be unpopular with abolitionists in his home state. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1850-03-07-daniel-webster\n• 190
 0 – The German ocean liner became the first ship to send a wireless tele
 graph message to an onshore receiver. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1900-03-07-ocean-liner\n• 1936 – Nazi German forces re-occ
 upied the demilitarized Rhineland\, violating both the Treaty of Versaille
 s and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-03-07-remilitarisation-of-the-rh
 ineland\n• 1945 – World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Rema
 gen\, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge\, which po
 ssibly hastened the war's conclusion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1945-03-07-battle-of-remagen\n• 1968 – Vietnam War: The Un
 ited States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep th
 e area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong
  forces in the area. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-
 03-07-operation-truong-cong-dinh\n\nDied 1810: Cuthbert Collingwood\, 1st 
 Baron Collingwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Collingwood%2C_1s
 t_Baron_Collingwood\nDied 1931: Akseli Gallen-Kallela https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela\nBorn 1956: Bryan Cranston https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cranston\nBorn 1998: Amanda Gorman https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman\n\nPictured: Daniel Webster.
SUMMARY:📅 March 7 · Daniel Webster\, The German ocean liner became the 
 first ship to send a…
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DESCRIPTION:March 8 in history:\n• 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wr
 ote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the M
 aya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1576-03-08-copan\n• 1910 – French aviator Raymonde 
 de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1910-03-08-raymonde-de-laroche\n• 
 1963 – The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of q
 uasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council 
 for the Revolutionary Command. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1963-03-08-1963-syrian-coup-d-etat\n• 1979 – Images taken by Voya
 ger 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured)\, a moon of Jupit
 er. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-03-08-volcanism-o
 n-io\n• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from 
 Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board\, with aircraft debris su
 bsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-03-08-malaysia-airlines-flight
 -370\n\nDied 1137: Adela of Normandy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_o
 f_Normandy\nBorn 1924: Louie Nunn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Nunn
 \nDied 1976: Alfons Rebane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Rebane\nDi
 ed 2013: Haseeb Ahsan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haseeb_Ahsan\n\nPictur
 ed: Io with two volcanic plumes.
SUMMARY:📅 March 8 · Copán\, Raymonde de Laroche\, 1963 Syrian coup d'
 état\, Volcanism on Io\, Malaysia…
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DESCRIPTION:March 9 in history:\n• 1776 – Scottish philosopher Adam Smi
 th published his book The Wealth of Nations\, the first classical treatise
  on political economy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-177
 6-03-09-the-wealth-of-nations\n• 1891 – Kaʻiulani (pictured) was appo
 inted the heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-03-09-ka-iulani\n• 1925 – Th
 e Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign against the mo
 untain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan\, present-day P
 akistan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-03-09-pink-s
 -war\n• 1956 – In Tbilisi\, Georgia\, soldiers suppressed mass demonst
 rations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinizati
 on. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1956-03-09-1956-georgi
 an-demonstrations\n• 1957 – The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Ha
 waii and the Aleutian Islands\, causing more than $5 million in damage fro
 m ground movement and a destructive tsunami. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1957-03-09-1957-andreanof-islands-earthquake\n\nDied 88
 6: Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi /travel/calendars/philosophers/events/philosopher
 s-abu-ma-shar-al-balkhi-q11373\nDied 1463: Catherine of Bologna https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Bologna\nBorn 1697: Friederike Caroline N
 euber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friederike_Caroline_Neuber\nBorn 1938:
  Dick Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Walker_%28astronomer%29\n\
 nPictured: Kaʻiulani.
SUMMARY:📅 March 9 · The Wealth of Nations\, Kaʻiulani\, Pink's War\, 1
 956 Georgian demonstrations\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 10 in history:\n• 1695 – Nine Years' War: At the Batt
 le of Sant Esteve d'en Bas\, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French
  regular infantry and caused them to surrender. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1695-03-10-battle-of-sant-esteve-d-en-bas\n• 1968 
 – Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces 
 overwhelmed the American\, Laotian\, Thai\, and Hmong defenders of Lima Si
 te 85. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-03-10-battle-o
 f-lima-site-85\n• 1977 – Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Obse
 rvatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1977-03-10-rings-of-uranus\n• 2008 – The N
 ew York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured)\, Governor of New Yor
 k\, had patronized a prostitution ring. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-2008-03-10-eliot-spitzer-prostitution-scandal\n• 2019 – 
 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addi
 s Ababa International Airport due to a fault within the software of the pl
 ane\, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people on board. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-03-10-ethiopian-airlines-flight-302\n
 \nDied 1391: Tvrtko I of Bosnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvrtko_I_of_
 Bosnia\nBorn 1867: Lillian Wald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Wald
 \nDied 1898: Marie-Eugénie de Jésus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-
 Eug%C3%A9nie_de_J%C3%A9sus\nDied 1994: Rupert Bruce-Mitford https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bruce-Mitford\n\nPictured: Eliot Spitzer.
SUMMARY:📅 March 10 · Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas\, Battle of Lima Si
 te 85\, Rings of Uranus\, Eliot…
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DESCRIPTION:March 16 in history:\n• 1621 – Samoset\, a member of the Ab
 enaki tribe\, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in Engl
 ish (depicted). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1621-03-16
 -samoset\n• 1960 – African American civil rights activists in Savannah
 \, Georgia\, conducted a sit-in\, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-03-16-savannah-prot
 est-movement\n• 2001 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazh
 uang\, China\, killed 108 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-2001-03-16-2001-shijiazhuang-bombings\n• 2002 – Sofia Gubaidul
 ina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg\, together with her Johanne
 s-Passion\, by soloists\, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre
  and the NDR. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2002-03-16-j
 ohannes-ostern\n\nBorn 1399: Xuande Emperor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Xuande_Emperor\nBorn 1822: Rosa Bonheur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa
 _Bonheur\nBorn 1940: Rock-Olga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-Olga\nDi
 ed 1991: Jean Bellette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bellette\n\nPict
 ured: Samoset greeting the Pilgrims.
SUMMARY:📅 March 16 · Samoset\, Savannah Protest Movement\, 2001 Shijiaz
 huang bombings\, Johannes-Ostern
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DESCRIPTION:March 11 in history:\n• 1851 – The first performance of Ver
 di's Rigoletto took place at La Fenice in Venice (poster pictured). /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1851-03-11-rigoletto\n• 1993 
 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female U
 nited States attorney general. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1993-03-11-janet-reno\n• 2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russ
 ia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley\, in the brea
 kaway territory of Abkhazia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2007-03-11-2007-georgia-helicopter-incident\n• 2010 – During the in
 auguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera\, earthquakes registeri
 ng 6.9 and 7.0 struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu\, ca
 using widespread damage. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 010-03-11-2010-pichilemu-earthquakes\n• 2020 – The World Health Organi
 zation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2020-03-11-world-health-organization\n
 \nBorn 1278: Mary of Woodstock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Woods
 tock\nDied 1646: Stanisław Koniecpolski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta
 nis%C5%82aw_Koniecpolski\nBorn 1926: Ralph Abernathy https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy\nDied 1984: Gladys Pearl Baker https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Gladys_Pearl_Baker\n\nPictured: Premiere poster of ''Rigoletto
 ''.
SUMMARY:📅 March 11 · Rigoletto\, Janet Reno\, 2007 Georgia helicopter i
 ncident\, 2010 Pichilemu…
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DESCRIPTION:March 12 in history:\n• 1088 – Odo of Châtillon was electe
 d as the 159th pope of the Catholic Church. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1088-03-12-1088-papal-election\n• 1913 – At a ceremo
 ny at Kurrajong Hill\, Lady Denman\, wife of the governor-general Lord Den
 man\, announced that the future capital of Australia would be called Canbe
 rra. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1913-03-12-canberra\n
 • 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed\, ending the Winter War be
 tween Finland and the Soviet Union. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1940-03-12-winter-war\n• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces exe
 cuted a "coup by memorandum"\, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister S
 üleyman Demirel (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1971-03-12-1971-turkish-military-memorandum\n• 2006 – U.S. Army sol
 diers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her 
 family members. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-03-12
 -mahmudiyah-rape-and-murders\n\nDied 1316: Stefan Dragutin https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Dragutin\nBorn 1795: William Lyon Mackenzie https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie\nBorn 1976: Zhao Wei https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Wei\nDied 2008: Lazare Ponticelli https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Lazare_Ponticelli\n\nPictured: Süleyman Demirel.
SUMMARY:📅 March 12 · 1088 papal election\, Canberra\, Winter War\, 1971
  Turkish military memorandum\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 13 in history:\n• 1811 – Napoleonic Wars: A British f
 rigate squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frig
 ates and smaller vessels in the Battle of Lissa (depicted) in the Adriatic
  Sea. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1811-03-13-battle-of
 -lissa-1811\n• 1888 – The eruption of Ritter Island triggered tsunamis
  that killed up to 3\,000 people on nearby islands. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1888-03-13-1888-ritter-island-eruption-and-tsuna
 mi\n• 1986 – Claiming the right of innocent passage\, the American war
 ships Yorktown and Caron entered Soviet territorial waters in the Black Se
 a. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1986-03-13-1986-black-s
 ea-incident\n• 2002 – The Sutton Hoo visitor centre\, featuring Rick K
 irby's sculpture Sutton Hoo Helmet (pictured in present location) was unve
 iled by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2002-03-13-sutton-hoo-helmet-sculpture\n\nDied 1447: Shah Rukh
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Rukh\nBorn 1798: Abigail Fillmore http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Fillmore\nBorn 1864: Alexej von Jawlensk
 y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexej_von_Jawlensky\nDied 1966: Iris Cald
 erhead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Calderhead\n\nPictured: ''Sutton
  Hoo Helmet''.
SUMMARY:📅 March 13 · Battle of Lissa (1811)\, 1888 Ritter Island erupti
 on and tsunami\, 1986 Black…
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DESCRIPTION:March 14 in history:\n• 1489 – Catherine Cornaro (pictured)
 \, Queen of Cyprus\, was forced to abdicate and sell the administration of
  the island to the Republic of Venice. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1489-03-14-catherine-cornaro\n• 1593 – Japanese invasions
  of Korea: A force of 3\,000 Korean soldiers successfully defended Haengju
  Fortress against 30\,000 Japanese invaders. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1593-03-14-battle-of-haengju\n• 1885 – The Mikado\,
  Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy opera\, debuted at
  the Savoy Theatre in London. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1885-03-14-the-mikado\n• 1945 – The Royal Air Force first used the
  Grand Slam\, a earthquake bomb\, on a strategic railway viaduct in Bielef
 eld\, Germany. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-03-14-
 grand-slam-bomb\n• 1991 – Escondida\, one of the most productive coppe
 r mines in the world\, was officially inaugurated. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1991-03-14-escondida\n\nBorn 1847: Castro Alves h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_Alves\nBorn 1923: Diane Arbus https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus\nDied 1930: A. A. Kannisto https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Kannisto\nDied 2019: Charlie Whiting https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Whiting\n\nPictured: Catherine Cornaro.
SUMMARY:📅 March 14 · Catherine Cornaro\, Battle of Haengju\, The Mikado
 \, Grand Slam (bomb)\, Escondida
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DESCRIPTION:March 15 in history:\n• 856 – Byzantine emperor Michael III
  overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora (pictured) to assume power f
 or himself. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0856-03-15-mic
 hael-iii\n• 1783 – George Washington delivered a speech to Continental
  Army officers in Newburgh\, New York\, asking them to support the suprema
 cy of the Congress of the Confederation\, defusing a potential coup. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1783-03-15-newburgh-conspiracy\
 n• 1874 – France and Vietnam signed the Second Treaty of Saigon\, furt
 her recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1874-03-15-treaty-of-saigon-1874\n
 • 1921 – Talaat Pasha\, the main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide\
 , was assassinated by Soghomon Tehlirian. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1921-03-15-talaat-pasha\n• 1990 – Iraqi authorities ha
 nged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Isr
 ael. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-03-15-farzad-baz
 oft\n\nDied 1311: Walter V\, Count of Brienne https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Walter_V%2C_Count_of_Brienne\nBorn 1866: Johan Vaaler https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Johan_Vaaler\nBorn 1926: Norm Van Brocklin https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Norm_Van_Brocklin\nBorn 1983: Lauren Ebsary https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Lauren_Ebsary\n\nPictured: Empress Theodora.
SUMMARY:📅 March 15 · Michael III\, Newburgh Conspiracy\, Treaty of Saig
 on (1874)\, Talaat Pasha\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 17 in history:\n• 1337 – Edward the Black Prince was 
 created Duke of Cornwall\, the first English dukedom. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1337-03-17-edward-the-black-prince\n• 1776 
 – American Revolutionary War: The 11‑month Siege of Boston ended with 
 the evacuation of the city's British garrison (depicted). /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-03-17-siege-of-boston\n• 1891 – T
 he transatlantic steamship Utopia accidentally collided with the battleshi
 p in the Bay of Gibraltar\, sinking in less than twenty minutes and killin
 g 562. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-03-17-ss-utopi
 a\n• 1957 – A plane crash on the slopes of Mount Manunggal killed Phil
 ippine president Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1957-03-17-1957-cebu-douglas-c-47-crash\n• 2011 
 – First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council adopted Re
 solution 1973\, authorizing military intervention in Libya to protect civi
 lians. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-03-17-united-n
 ations-security-council-resoluti\n\nDied 180: Marcus Aurelius /travel/cale
 ndars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-marcus-aurelius-q1430\nBorn 1864: J
 oseph Baptista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Baptista\nBorn 1976: S
 cott Downs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Downs\nDied 2001: Anthony S
 torr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Storr\n\nPictured: British evac
 uation of [[Boston]].
SUMMARY:📅 March 17 · Edward the Black Prince\, Siege of Boston\, SS Uto
 pia\, 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47…
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DESCRIPTION:March 18 in history:\n• 1608 – Susenyos I was formally crow
 ned Emperor of Ethiopia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 608-03-18-susenyos-i\n• 1793 – Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the R
 epublic of Mainz\, becoming the first republican state in Germany. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1793-03-18-andreas-joseph-hofmann
 \n• 1901 – The construction of the House with Chimaeras (pictured) com
 menced in Kyiv. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1901-03-18
 -house-with-chimaeras\n• 1921 – Russian Civil War: Bolshevik forces su
 ppressed a rebellion of sailors and civilians in Kronstadt. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-03-18-kronstadt-rebellion\n• 2015
  – Gunmen attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia\, killing 24 peo
 ple. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-03-18-bardo-nati
 onal-museum-attack\n\nDied 1321: Matthew III Csák https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Matthew_III_Cs%C3%A1k\nBorn 1789: Charlotte Elliott https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Elliott\nBorn 1901: William H. Johnson https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Johnson_%28artist%29\nBorn 1976: Mike Quack
 enbush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Quackenbush\n\nPictured: House w
 ith Chimaeras.
SUMMARY:📅 March 18 · Susenyos I\, Andreas Joseph Hofmann\, House with C
 himaeras\, Kronstadt rebellion\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 19 in history:\n• 1563 – The Edict of Amboise was sig
 ned\, ending the first war in the French Wars of Religion and inaugurating
  a period of official peace that lasted until 1567. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1563-03-19-edict-of-amboise\n• 1808 – King C
 harles IV of Spain was forced to abdicate in favour of his son Ferdinand V
 II as a result of the Tumult of Aranjuez. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1808-03-19-charles-iv-of-spain\n• 1964 – Between 300\,
 000 and 500\,000 Brazilians attended the March of the Family with God for 
 Liberty (pictured)\, in protest against the government of João Goulart an
 d against communism. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1964-
 03-19-march-of-the-family-with-god-for-liberty\n• 1979 – The American 
 cable television network C-SPAN\, covering government proceedings and publ
 ic-affairs programming\, was launched. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1979-03-19-c-span\n• 2008 – The gamma-ray burst GRB 08031
 9B was observed\, setting a record for the farthest event from Earth obser
 vable with the naked eye. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 2008-03-19-grb-080319b\n\nBorn 1601: Alonso Cano https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Alonso_Cano\nBorn 1876: Felix Jacoby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe
 lix_Jacoby\nDied 1996: Virginia Henderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
 rginia_Henderson\n\nPictured: March of the Family with God for Liberty.
SUMMARY:📅 March 19 · Edict of Amboise\, Charles IV of Spain\, March of 
 the Family with God for…
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DESCRIPTION:March 20 in history:\n• 1602 – The Dutch East India Company
 \, the first company to issue stock\, was established. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1602-03-20-dutch-east-india-company\n• 1854
  – The Republican Party was founded in Ripon\, Wisconsin\, by politician
 s opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the U
 nited States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1854-03-20-r
 epublican-party-united-states\n• 1890 – Emperor Wilhelm II dismissed O
 tto von Bismarck as the chancellor of the German Empire. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1890-03-20-otto-von-bismarck\n• 1926 – 
 Chiang Kai-shek initiated a purge of communist elements within the Nationa
 l Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou\, China. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1926-03-20-canton-coup\n• 2010 – Eyjafjallajökull (p
 ictured) in Iceland began a series of volcanic events\, later disrupting a
 ir travel across Europe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 010-03-20-eyjafjallajokull\n\nDied 1730: Adrienne Lecouvreur https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Lecouvreur\nDied 1945: Maria Lacerda de Moura ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Lacerda_de_Moura\nBorn 1976: Chester Ben
 nington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bennington\nBorn 2001: Trevo
 r Zegras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Zegras\n\nPictured: Eyjafjal
 lajökull.
SUMMARY:📅 March 20 · Dutch East India Company\, Republican Party (Unite
 d States)\, Otto von Bismarck\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 21 in history:\n• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer\, a former ar
 chbishop of Canterbury and one of the founders of Anglicanism\, was burned
  at the stake for heresy in Oxford\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1556-03-21-thomas-cranmer\n• 1844 – The Baháʼí 
 calendar\, used in the Baháʼí Faith\, began. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1844-03-21-baha-i-calendar\n• 1963 – The Federal
  Bureau of Prisons closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
  (pictured) in San Francisco Bay\, California. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1963-03-21-alcatraz-federal-penitentiary\n• 1983 
 – In the West Bank\, a number of Palestinian girls complained of breathi
 ng difficulties due to strange odors\, leading to accusations of poison ga
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-03-21-1983-west-ba
 nk-fainting-epidemic\n• 2006 – Jack Dorsey sent the first message on t
 he social-media network Twitter. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-2006-03-21-x-social-network\n\nBorn 1806: Benito Juárez https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%C3%A1rez\nBorn 1926: André Delvaux https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Delvaux\nBorn 1976: Rachael MacFarlane ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_MacFarlane\nDied 2021: Nawal El Saadaw
 i https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Saadawi\n\nPictured: Alcatraz Isl
 and.
SUMMARY:📅 March 21 · Thomas Cranmer\, Baháʼí calendar\, Alcatraz Fed
 eral Penitentiary\, 1983 West Bank…
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DESCRIPTION:March 22 in history:\n• 1765 – The Parliament of Great Brit
 ain passed the Stamp Act\, requiring that many printed materials in the Th
 irteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1765-03-22-stamp-act-1765\n• 1934 – In gol
 f\, the first Masters Tournament was held at Augusta National Golf Club in
  Georgia\, United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1934-03-22-1934-masters-tournament\n• 1943 – World War II: Almost the 
 entire population of the village of Khatyn\, in present-day Belarus\, were
  massacred by Ukrainian and Belarusian Nazi collaborators. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-03-22-khatyn-massacre\n• 1997 – 
 Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured) reached its closest approach to Earth at 1.31
 5 AU. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1997-03-22-comet-hal
 e-bopp\n\nBorn 1615: Katherine Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri
 ne_Jones%2C_Viscountess_Ranelagh\nDied 1864: Konstanty Kalinowski https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanty_Kalinowski\nBorn 1976: Reese Witherspoon h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Witherspoon\nBorn 2001: Artūrs Šilovs
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%C5%ABrs_%C5%A0ilovs\n\nPictured: Comet 
 Hale–Bopp.
SUMMARY:📅 March 22 · Stamp Act 1765\, 1934 Masters Tournament\, Khatyn 
 massacre\, Comet Hale–Bopp
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DESCRIPTION:March 23 in history:\n• 625 – The Muslim army under Muhamma
 d suffered a defeat against the Quraysh in the Battle of Uhud (depicted). 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0625-03-23-battle-of-uhud\
 n• 1839 – An earthquake struck central Burma\, causing significant dam
 age and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1839-03-23-1839-ava-earthquake\n• 1919 – Benito 
 Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento\,
  the predecessor of the National Fascist Party. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1919-03-23-fasci-italiani-di-combattimento\n• 1991
  – The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutiona
 ry United Front\, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-03-23-sierra-leone-c
 ivil-war\n• 2021 – A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Sue
 z Canal for six days. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021
 -03-23-2021-suez-canal-obstruction\n\nDied 851: Zhou Chi https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Zhou_Chi\nBorn 1876: Ziya Gökalp https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Ziya_G%C3%B6kalp\nBorn 1976: Smriti Irani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Smriti_Irani\nDied 2021: Julie Pomagalski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
 ulie_Pomagalski\n\nPictured: Battle of Uhud.
SUMMARY:📅 March 23 · Battle of Uhud\, 1839 Ava earthquake\, Fasci Itali
 ani di Combattimento\, Sierra…
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DESCRIPTION:March 24 in history:\n• 1882 – German physician Robert Koch
  announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis\, the pathogen that
  causes tuberculosis. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1882
 -03-24-robert-koch\n• 1900 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck\, mayor of New Y
 ork City\, broke ground for a new underground Rapid Transit Railroad that 
 would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1900-03-24-history-of-the-new-york-city-subway\n• 1921 – The 
 inaugural Women's Olympiad (cover pictured)\, the first international wome
 n's sports event\, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in 
 Monte Carlo. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-03-24-19
 21-women-s-olympiad\n• 1939 – Members of the German National Movement 
 in Liechtenstein attempted to overthrow the government and provoke Liechte
 nstein's annexation into Nazi Germany. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1939-03-24-german-national-movement-in-liechtenstei\n• 2015
  – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the airc
 raft\, an Airbus A320\, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps\, ki
 lling all 150 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-2015-03-24-germanwings-flight-9525\n\nBorn 1494: Georgius Agricola /t
 ravel/calendars/scientists/events/scientists-georgius-agricola-q76579\nDie
 d 1926: Phan Châu Trinh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Ch%C3%A2u_Trin
 h\nBorn 1976: Peyton Manning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Manning\
 nDied 2016: Johan Cruyff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Cruyff\n\nPic
 tured: Cover of the 1921 Women's Olympiad.
SUMMARY:📅 March 24 · Robert Koch\, History of the New York City Subway\
 , 1921 Women's Olympiad\,…
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DESCRIPTION:March 25 in history:\n• 708 – Constantine was selected as o
 ne of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-0708-03-25-pope-constantine\n• 1655 – Dutch astron
 omer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan\, the largest natural satellite o
 f Saturn. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1655-03-25-chris
 tiaan-huygens\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American Patriot f
 orces in Georgia conducted a raid on Tybee Island\, with the primary goal 
 of capturing runaway slaves seeking refuge with the British. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-03-25-raid-on-tybee-island\n• 19
 03 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (ship pictured) anchored
  in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first 
 weather station in Antarctic territory. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1903-03-25-scottish-national-antarctic-expedition\n• 2006 
 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus\, following the preside
 ntial vote days earlier\, were arrested\, including opposition leader Alya
 ksandr Kazulin. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-03-25
 -alyaksandr-kazulin\n\nDied 1801: Novalis /travel/calendars/writers/events
 /writers-novalis-q60684\nBorn 1910: Magda Olivero https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Magda_Olivero\nBorn 1926: Gene Shalit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Gene_Shalit\nBorn 1976: Wladimir Klitschko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
 ladimir_Klitschko\n\nPictured: ''[[Scotia (barque).
SUMMARY:📅 March 25 · Pope Constantine\, Christiaan Huygens\, Raid on Ty
 bee Island\, Scottish National…
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DESCRIPTION:March 26 in history:\n• 1169 – Saladin (depicted on coin) w
 as inaugurated as vizier of Egypt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1169-03-26-saladin\n• 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine
  in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining ac
 cident. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1896-03-26-brunner
 -mine-disaster\n• 1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district\
 , Uttarakhand\, India\, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from 
 felling them\, giving rise to the Chipko movement. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1974-03-26-chipko-movement\n• 1991 – Singapor
 e Airlines Flight 117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and divert
 ed to Changi Airport. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991
 -03-26-singapore-airlines-flight-117\n\nDied 1776: Samuel Ward https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ward_%28Rhode_Island_politician%29\nDied 1926: C
 onstantin Fehrenbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Fehrenbach\n
 Born 1985: Keira Knightley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keira_Knightley\n
 Died 2011: Diana Wynne Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jon
 es\n\nPictured: Saladin.
SUMMARY:📅 March 26 · Saladin\, Brunner Mine disaster\, Chipko movement\
 , Singapore Airlines Flight 117
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DESCRIPTION:March 27 in history:\n• 1625 – Charles I became King of Eng
 land\, Scotland and Ireland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1625-03-27-charles-i-of-england\n• 1941 – World War II: A group of 
 Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a
  coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1941-03-27-yugoslav-coup-d-etat\n• 1976 –
  The Washington Metro (rolling stock pictured)\, the second-busiest rapid 
 transit system in the U.S.\, opened to commuters. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1976-03-27-washington-metro\n• 2015 – Himeji C
 astle\, the largest and most visited Japanese castle\, re-opened after fiv
 e years of restoration work. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2015-03-27-himeji-castle\n\nBorn 1878: Kathleen Scott https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Scott\nDied 1926: Georges Vézina https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Georges_V%C3%A9zina\nBorn 1970: Leila Pahlavi https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Leila_Pahlavi\nBorn 2000: Halle Bailey https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Halle_Bailey\n\nPictured: Washington Metro rolling stock.
SUMMARY:📅 March 27 · Charles I of England\, Yugoslav coup d'état\, Was
 hington Metro\, Himeji Castle
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DESCRIPTION:March 28 in history:\n• 193 – The Praetorian Guard assassin
 ated Roman emperor Pertinax (bust pictured) and sold the imperial office i
 n an auction to Didius Julianus. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-0193-03-28-pertinax\n• 1646 – Irish Confederate Wars: Donough M
 acCarty\, 1st Earl of Clancarty\, signed the First Ormond Peace for the Co
 nfederates in exchange for greater freedom of religion. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1646-03-28-donough-maccarty-1st-earl-of-clan
 carty\n• 1902 – The Hexham Abbey high-altar cross\, amongst the most i
 mportant works produced that year by the Keswick School of Industrial Art\
 , was unveiled on Good Friday. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1902-03-28-hexham-abbey-high-altar-cross\n• 1968 – Colonel Sun\, 
 written by Kingsley Amis\, was published\, becoming the first James Bond n
 ovel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1968-03-28-colonel-sun\n\nBorn 1904: Margaret
  Tucker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tucker\nBorn 1936: Mario Va
 rgas Llosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa\nBorn 1986: Bo
 we Bergdahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl\nDied 2009: Janet 
 Jagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Jagan\n\nPictured: Bust of Perti
 nax.
SUMMARY:📅 March 28 · Pertinax\, Donough MacCarty\, 1st Earl of Clancart
 y\, Hexham Abbey high-altar…
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DESCRIPTION:March 29 in history:\n• 845 – Viking expansion: Viking raid
 ers\, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok\, plundered and occupie
 d Paris\, holding the city for a large ransom. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-0845-03-29-siege-of-paris-845\n• 1823 – Joaquín 
 de Oreamuno led a coup d'état that overthrew Rafael Francisco Osejo\, att
 empting to restore allegiance to the Mexican Empire. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1823-03-29-joaquin-de-oreamuno\n• 1831 – Au
 thorities held an inquest at New Town\, Tasmania\, into the deaths of a wo
 man and two children who were fatally poisoned after eating smooth toadfis
 h. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1831-03-29-new-town-tas
 mania\n• 1974 – A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi 
 discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting th
 e armies of Qin Shi Huang\, the first emperor of China. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-03-29-terracotta-army\n\nBorn 1826: Wil
 helm Liebknecht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Liebknecht\nBorn 187
 4: Lou Henry Hoover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover\nBorn 1
 951: Nick Ut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut\nDied 1986: Haane Manah
 i https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haane_Manahi\n\nPictured: Terracotta Army.
SUMMARY:📅 March 29 · Siege of Paris (845)\, Joaquín de Oreamuno\, smoo
 th toadfish\, Terracotta Army
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DESCRIPTION:March 30 in history:\n• 1730 – The Author's Farce\, by Henr
 y Fielding\, premiered at the Little Theatre in London. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1730-03-30-the-author-s-farce\n• 1861 – 
 British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using 
 flame spectroscopy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1861-0
 3-30-william-crookes\n• 1863 – George I (pictured) became King of the 
 Hellenes. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1863-03-30-georg
 e-i-of-greece\n• 1921 – The Australian Air Corps was disbanded\, to be
  replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-03-30-australian-air-corps\n• 1950 
 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa\, widely recognised as the f
 irst Indonesian film. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950
 -03-30-darah-dan-doa\n• 2009 – The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore\, 
 Pakistan\, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen\, resultin
 g in 16 deaths and 95 injuries. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-2009-03-30-2009-lahore-police-academy-attack\n\nBorn 1820: Anna Sewe
 ll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Sewell\nBorn 1926: Ingvar Kamprad ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad\nBorn 1986: Sergio Ramos https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Ramos\nBorn 1993: Anitta https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Anitta_%28singer%29\n\nPictured: George&nbsp\;I of Greece.
SUMMARY:📅 March 30 · The Author's Farce\, thallium\, George I of Greece
 \, Australian Air Corps\, Darah…
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DESCRIPTION:March 31 in history:\n• 1146 – French abbot Bernard of Clai
 rvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay\, with King Lo
 uis VII in attendance\, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1146-03-31-bernard-of-clairvaux\n
 • 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in th
 e first Catholic Mass in the Philippines. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1521-03-31-first-mass-in-the-philippines\n• 1910 – Six
  English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on
 -Trent\, the first union of its type. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1910-03-31-federation-of-stoke-on-trent\n• 1995 – TAROM Fl
 ight 371 (pictured) crashed near Balotești\, Romania\, killing all 60 peo
 ple on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-03-31-t
 arom-flight-371\n• 2023 – A tornado caused the collapse of a venue hos
 ting a sold-out concert in Belvidere\, Illinois\, United States\, resultin
 g in one death and 48 injuries. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-2023-03-31-belvidere-apollo-theatre-collapse\n\nBorn 1360: Philippa 
 of Lancaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_of_Lancaster\nDied 167
 1: Anne Hyde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hyde\nBorn 1926: Beni Mont
 resor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni_Montresor\nDied 2001: David Rocas
 tle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rocastle\n\nPictured: TAROM Flight
  371.
SUMMARY:📅 March 31 · Bernard of Clairvaux\, First Mass in the Philippin
 es\, Federation of…
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DESCRIPTION:April 1 in history:\n• 1346 – Hundred Years' War: John\, Du
 ke of Normandy\, laid siege to the town of Aiguillon. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1346-04-01-siege-of-aiguillon\n• 1922 – Un
 der the South Seas Mandate\, Japan set up a government in Koror\, precipit
 ating large-scale Japanese settlement in Palau. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1922-04-01-japanese-settlement-in-palau\n• 1976 
 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer\, Inc. (first logo
  pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-04-01-ste
 ve-jobs\n• 2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8
  collided in mid-air off Hainan\, resulting in an international dispute be
 tween the two countries. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 001-04-01-hainan-island-incident\n\nBorn 1866: Ferruccio Busoni https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruccio_Busoni\nDied 1916: James Burrill Angell http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burrill_Angell\nDied 1930: Cosima Wagner h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosima_Wagner\nDied 2015: Cynthia Lennon http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Lennon\n\nPictured: The first Apple\, In
 c. logo.
SUMMARY:📅 April 1 · Siege of Aiguillon\, Japanese settlement in Palau\,
  Steve Jobs\, Hainan Island…
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DESCRIPTION:April 2 in history:\n• 1513 – Spanish conquistador Juan Pon
 ce de León sighted land in North America\, naming the area La Florida. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1513-04-02-juan-ponce-de-leo
 n\n• 1871 – Creatures of Impulse\, by W. S. Gilbert (pictured)\, premi
 ered at the Court Theatre in London. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1871-04-02-creatures-of-impulse\n• 1911 – The Australian Bu
 reau of Statistics conducted the first national census of the country. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-04-02-1911-australian-ce
 nsus\n• 2015 – Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya\, k
 illing 148 people and wounding 79 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-2015-04-02-garissa-university-college-attack\n\nBorn 1926:
  Jack Brabham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Brabham\nBorn 1947: Emmyl
 ou Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmylou_Harris\nBorn 1957: Carolin
 e Dean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Dean\nDied 2001: Charles Dau
 delin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Daudelin\n\nPictured: W.&nbsp\
 ;S. Gilbert.
SUMMARY:📅 April 2 · Juan Ponce de León\, Creatures of Impulse\, 1911 A
 ustralian census\, Garissa…
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DESCRIPTION:April 3 in history:\n• 1559 – Henry II of France and Philip
  II of Spain signed the second treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis\, ending the It
 alian War of 1551–1559. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1559-04-03-treaty-of-cateau-cambresis\n• 1888 – Emma Elizabeth Smith w
 as killed in the first of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place
  in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of Londo
 n. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1888-04-03-whitechapel-
 murders\n• 1966 – Luna 10 (replica pictured) entered orbit around the 
 Moon\, becoming the first space probe to orbit an astronomical body other 
 than Earth or the Sun. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-196
 6-04-03-luna-10\n• 2018 – A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters 
 in San Bruno\, California\, injuring three people before killing herself. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2018-04-03-2018-youtube-he
 adquarters-shooting\n\nDied 1680: Shivaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh
 ivaji\nBorn 1858: Mary Harrison McKee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_H
 arrison_McKee\nBorn 1926: Gus Grissom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Gr
 issom\nBorn 1992: Yuliya Yefimova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Yef
 imova\n\nPictured: Replica of Luna&nbsp\;10.
SUMMARY:📅 April 3 · Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis\, Whitechapel murders\,
  Luna&nbsp\;10\, YouTube…
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DESCRIPTION:April 4 in history:\n• 1268 – The Byzantine Empire and the 
 Republic of Venice signed a five-year peace treaty. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1268-04-04-byzantine-venetian-treaty-of-1268\n
 • 1581 – Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake for completing a cir
 cumnavigation of the world. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1581-04-04-francis-drake\n• 1990 – The current flag of Hong Kong (pi
 ctured) was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the 
 Seventh National People's Congress. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1990-04-04-flag-of-hong-kong\n• 2011 – Georgian Airways Flig
 ht 834 crashed at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa\, killing 32 people and leav
 ing one survivor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-04-
 04-georgian-airways-flight-834\n\nDied 1538: Elena Glinskaya https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Glinskaya\nBorn 1868: Philippa Fawcett https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Fawcett\nBorn 1926: Addo Bonetti https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Addo_Bonetti\n\nPictured: Flag of Hong Kong.
SUMMARY:📅 April 4 · Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268\, Francis Drake
 \, flag of Hong Kong\, Georgian…
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DESCRIPTION:April 5 in history:\n• 1710 – The Statute of Anne\, the fir
 st legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the g
 overnment and courts\, received royal assent and entered into force five d
 ays later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1710-04-05-stat
 ute-of-anne\n• 1974 – Carrie (pictured)\, the first novel by American 
 author Stephen King\, was published. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1974-04-05-carrie-novel\n• 1983 – In China\, the People's A
 rmed Police\, primarily responsible for internal security\, was founded. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-04-05-people-s-armed-p
 olice\n• 2010 – Two bombings in Pakistan killed up to 50 people and in
 jured around 100 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_April_2010_North-
 West_Frontier_Province_attacks\n\nBorn 1726: Benjamin Harrison V https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison%26nbsp%3BV\nBorn 1863: Princess Vic
 toria of Hesse and by Rhine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victori
 a_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine\nBorn 1976: Fernando Morientes https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Fernando_Morientes\nBorn 1996: Rashmika Mandanna https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Rashmika_Mandanna\n\nPictured: First edition dust jacket o
 f ''Carrie''.
SUMMARY:📅 April 5 · Statute of Anne\, Carrie (novel)\, People's Armed P
 olice\, 5 April 2010…
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DESCRIPTION:April 6 in history:\n• 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck
  landed at Table Bay in southern Africa\, establishing a settlement that l
 ater became known as Cape Town. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1652-04-06-jan-van-riebeeck\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War
 : Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture near B
 lock Island. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-04-06-ba
 ttle-of-block-island\n• 1926 – Varney Air Lines made its first commerc
 ial flight (flight covers pictured)\, later forming the basis of United Ai
 rlines. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1926-04-06-united-
 airlines\n• 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the Na
 tional Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-04-06-jalal-talabani\n• 2011 – Mex
 ican drug war: Authorities discovered 59 bodies in clandestine mass graves
  linked to earlier bus hijackings in San Fernando\, Tamaulipas. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-04-06-2011-san-fernando-massacr
 e\n\nDied 1670: Leonora Baroni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Baron
 i\nBorn 1826: Gustave Moreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau\
 nBorn 1951: Bert Blyleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Blyleven\nBor
 n 1991: Teigan Van Roosmalen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teigan_Van_Roos
 malen\n\nPictured: Varney Air Lines first flight covers.
SUMMARY:📅 April 6 · Jan van Riebeeck\, Battle of Block Island\, United 
 Airlines\, Jalal Talabani\,…
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DESCRIPTION:April 7 in history:\n• 1831 – Pedro II became emperor of th
 e Empire of Brazil. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1831-0
 4-07-pedro-ii-of-brazil\n• 1926 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini su
 rvived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1926-04-07-violet-gibson\n• 1994 – 
 A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed su
 icide attempt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-04-07-
 federal-express-flight-705\n• 2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist'
 s conception pictured)\, the longest-surviving continually active spacecra
 ft in orbit around a planet other than Earth\, launched from Cape Canavera
 l. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-04-07-2001-mars-od
 yssey\n\nDied 1201: Baha al-Din Qaraqush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah
 a_al-Din_Qaraqush\nBorn 1803: Flora Tristan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Flora_Tristan\nBorn 1951: Santa Barraza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant
 a_Barraza\nBorn 1989: Teddy Riner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Rine
 r\n\nPictured: Artist's conception of ''2001 Mars Odyssey''.
SUMMARY:📅 April 7 · Pedro II of Brazil\, Violet Gibson\, Federal Expres
 s Flight 705\, 2001 Mars Odyssey
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DESCRIPTION:April 8 in history:\n• 876 – Abbasid forces decisively defe
 ated the Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith\, forcing the latter to halt his a
 dvance into Iraq. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0876-04-
 08-battle-of-dayr-al-aqul\n• 1630 – Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased l
 and near present-day Albany\, New York\, to establish Rensselaerswyck\, wh
 ich became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Comp
 any. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1630-04-08-rensselaer
 swyck\n• 1820 – The Venus de Milo (pictured)\, an ancient Greek statue
  of a woman with its arms missing\, was discovered on the island of Milos.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1820-04-08-venus-de-milo\
 n• 1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf k
 illed 238 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-04-
 08-mv-dara\n• 2008 – On board Soyuz TMA-12\, Yi So-yeon became the fir
 st Korean astronaut. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-
 04-08-yi-so-yeon\n\nDied 1321: Thomas of Tolentino https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Thomas_of_Tolentino\nBorn 1900: Marie Byles https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Marie_Byles\nBorn 1926: Shecky Greene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Shecky_Greene\nBorn 1970: Mirsada Burić https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi
 rsada_Buri%C4%87\n\nPictured: Venus de Milo.
SUMMARY:📅 April 8 · Battle of Dayr al-Aqul\, Rensselaerswyck\, Venus de
  Milo\, MV Dara\, Yi So-yeon
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DESCRIPTION:April 9 in history:\n• 193 – Year of the Five Emperors: Sep
 timius Severus was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops at Carnuntum in 
 modern-day Austria. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0193-0
 4-09-septimius-severus\n• 1388 – Despite being vastly outnumbered\, fo
 rces of the Old Swiss Confederacy defeated an Austrian army at the Battle 
 of Näfels. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1388-04-09-bat
 tle-of-nafels\n• 1860 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded h
 imself singing "Au clair de la lune" on his phonautograph\, producing the 
 oldest known recording of an audible human voice (audio featured). /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1860-04-09-edouard-leon-scott-de-
 martinville\n• 1976 – The first EMD F40PH\, Amtrak's most widespread d
 iesel locomotive for many years\, entered into service. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-04-09-emd-f40ph\n• 2021 – Prince Ph
 ilip\, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II\, died at Windsor Castle aged 99.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021-04-09-death-and-fune
 ral-of-prince-philip-duke\n\nDied 1626: Francis Bacon /travel/calendars/fa
 mous-lives/events/famous-lives-francis-bacon-q37388\nBorn 1921: Mary Jacks
 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_%28engineer%29\nBorn 1926: H
 ugh Hefner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hefner\nBorn 2001: Nika Müh
 l https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_M%C3%BChl\n\nPictured: "Au clair de l
 a lune" by Édouard-Léon<br/>Scott de Martinville.
SUMMARY:📅 April 9 · Septimius Severus\, Battle of Näfels\, Édouard-L
 éon Scott de Martinville\, EMD…
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DESCRIPTION:April 10 in history:\n• 847 – Pope Leo IV was consecrated w
 ithout imperial consent following the Saracen sack of Rome. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0847-04-10-pope-leo-iv\n• 1741 – War
  of the Austrian Succession: Prussian forces defeated Austrian troops at t
 he Battle of Mollwitz in present-day Małujowice\, Poland\, cementing Fred
 erick II's authority over the newly conquered territory of Silesia. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1741-04-10-battle-of-mollwitz\n
 • 1815 – Mount Tambora (pictured) in Indonesia began the most powerful
  volcanic eruption in recorded history\, killing at least 71\,000 people a
 nd affecting temperatures worldwide. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1815-04-10-mount-tambora\n• 2019 – Scientists from the Even
 t Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at 
 the center of the galaxy M87. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-2019-04-10-event-horizon-telescope\n\nDied 1704: Wilhelm Egon von Für
 stenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Egon_von_F%C3%BCrstenberg\n
 Born 1930: Dolores Huerta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta\nBo
 rn 1956: Carol Robinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Robinson\nBorn
  2004: Savinho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savinho\n\nPictured: Mount Ta
 mbora.
SUMMARY:📅 April 10 · Pope Leo&nbsp\;IV\, Battle of Mollwitz\, Mount Tam
 bora\, Event Horizon Telescope
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DESCRIPTION:April 11 in history:\n• 491 – Anastasius I Dicorus (picture
 d) became the Eastern Roman emperor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-0491-04-11-anastasius-i-dicorus\n• 1885 – Luton Town Footba
 ll Club was founded in England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1885-04-11-luton-town-f-c\n• 1951 – The Stone of Scone\, removed
  months earlier by Scottish students\, was found on the altar of Arbroath 
 Abbey. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1951-04-11-stone-of
 -scone\n• 1973 – On the Art of the Cinema\, a treatise on film propaga
 nda in support of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea written by the future
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Il\, was published. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1973-04-11-on-the-art-of-the-cinema\n• 2011 – 
 A bomb exploded at Oktyabrskaya station on the Minsk Metro in Belarus\, ki
 lling 15 people and injuring more than 200. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-2011-04-11-2011-minsk-metro-bombing\n\nDied 1165: Stephe
 n IV of Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_IV_of_Hungary\nBorn 
 1861: Seymour H. Knox I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_H._Knox%26nb
 sp%3BI\nDied 1951: Panama Al Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Al
 _Brown\nBorn 2000: Milly Alcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly_Alcock
 \n\nPictured: Anastasius&nbsp\;I Dicorus.
SUMMARY:📅 April 11 · Anastasius I Dicorus\, Luton Town F.C.\, Stone of 
 Scone\, On the Art of the…
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DESCRIPTION:April 12 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolution: The Nor
 th Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves\, the first of
 ficial action in the American colonies calling for independence from Great
  Britain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-04-12-halif
 ax-resolves\n• 1961 – Aboard Vostok 1\, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin 
 performed the first human spaceflight\, completing one orbit of Earth in 1
 08 minutes. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-04-12-yur
 i-gagarin\n• 1993 – Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flig
 ht to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the Uni
 ted Nations Security Council. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1993-04-12-operation-deny-flight\n• 2013 – Four Chadian soldiers w
 ere killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal\, Mali. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-04-12-april-2013-kidal-atta
 ck\n\nDied 1256: Margaret of Bourbon\, Queen of Navarre https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Bourbon%2C_Queen_of_Navarre\nBorn 1916: Beverly Cl
 eary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary\nBorn 1926: Jane Withers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Withers\nDied 1966: Sydney Allard http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Allard\n\nPictured: Yuri Gagarin.
SUMMARY:📅 April 12 · Halifax Resolves\, Yuri Gagarin\, Operation Deny F
 light\, April 2013 Kidal attack
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DESCRIPTION:April 13 in history:\n• 1742 – The first performance of the
  oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel (pictured) took place in Dubli
 n. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1742-04-13-messiah-hand
 el\n• 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent\, rem
 oving the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1829-04-13-roman-catholi
 c-relief-act-1829\n• 1976 – Forty people died in an explosion at an am
 munition factory in Lapua\, Finland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1976-04-13-lapua-cartridge-factory-explosion\n• 1996 – An I
 srael Defense Forces helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance\, killing tw
 o women and four children in Mansouri\, Lebanon. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1996-04-13-mansouri-attack\n• 2009 – Andrew Hus
 sie's webcomic Homestuck debuted\, and later concluded on the same day in 
 2016. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-04-13-homestuck
 \n\nDied 1113: Ida of Lorraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_of_Lorrai
 ne\nBorn 1519: Catherine de' Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherin
 e_de%27_Medici\nBorn 1951: Max Weinberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_
 Weinberg\nBorn 2001: Neco Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neco_Will
 iams\n\nPictured: George Frideric Handel.
SUMMARY:📅 April 13 · Messiah (Handel)\, Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829\
 , Lapua Cartridge Factory…
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DESCRIPTION:April 14 in history:\n• 966 – Mieszko I\, the ruler of Pola
 nd\, converted to Christianity\, an event considered to be the founding of
  the Polish state. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0966-04
 -14-christianization-of-poland\n• 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkis
 ts under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet\, kil
 ling Richard Neville\, Earl of Warwick. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1471-04-14-battle-of-barnet\n• 1970 – After an oxygen ta
 nk aboard Apollo 13 (mission patch pictured) exploded\, disabling the spac
 ecraft's electrical and life-support systems\, astronaut Jack Swigert repo
 rted: "Houston\, we've had a problem here". /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1970-04-14-apollo-13\n• 2015 – Western Kentucky Univ
 ersity announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and diving progr
 ams as a result of a hazing scandal. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2015-04-14-western-kentucky-university-swim-team-ha\n\nBorn 112
 6: Averroes /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-averroes-q3
 9837\nDied 1740: Lady Catherine Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_C
 atherine_Jones\nBorn 1926: Barbara Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Barbara_Anderson_%28writer%29\nBorn 1976: Santiago Abascal https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Abascal\n\nPictured: Apollo&nbsp\;13 mission patch
 .
SUMMARY:📅 April 14 · Christianization of Poland\, Battle of Barnet\, Ap
 ollo 13\, Western Kentucky…
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DESCRIPTION:April 15 in history:\n• 769 – The final session of the Late
 ran Council\, convened to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process th
 at had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip\, w
 as held in Rome. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0769-04-1
 5-lateran-council-769\n• 1191 – Henry VI\, King of Germany (pictured)\
 , was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1191-04-15-henry-vi-holy-roman-emperor\n• 1755 – A Dictionary 
 of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published\, becoming o
 ne of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1755-04-15-a-dictionary-of-the-en
 glish-language\n• 1802 – English poet William Wordsworth and his siste
 r Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils near Ullswater\, inspirin
 g him to pen his best-known work\, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1802-04-15-i-wandered-lonely-as-a
 -cloud\n• 1989 – The death of former Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaob
 ang triggered a series of events that led to the Tiananmen Square protests
  in Beijing. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-04-15-de
 ath-of-hu-yaobang\n• 2021 – A mass shooting at a FedEx Ground facility
  in Indianapolis\, Indiana\, killed nine and injured seven. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021-04-15-2021-indianapolis-fedex-shoot
 ing\n\nBorn 1901: Joe Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Davis\nBorn 
 1926: Michael Smuss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Smuss\nBorn 1965
 : Soichi Noguchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichi_Noguchi\nDied 1990: 
 Greta Garbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo\n\nPictured: Henry&n
 bsp\;VI\, Holy Roman Emperor.
SUMMARY:📅 April 15 · Lateran Council (769)\, Henry VI\, Holy Roman Empe
 ror\, A Dictionary of the…
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DESCRIPTION:April 16 in history:\n• 556 – Emperor Justinian I approved 
 and consecrated Pope Pelagius I. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-0556-04-16-pope-pelagius-i\n• 1912 – American pilot Harriet Qui
 mby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1912-04-16-harriet-quimby\n
 • 1917 – World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assaul
 t against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge\, south of Laon\, Fra
 nce. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1917-04-16-second-bat
 tle-of-the-aisne\n• 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a six-day confli
 ct over their disputed border\, which ended in a stalemate. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-04-16-2001-bangladesh-india-border-
 skirmishes\n• 2014 – The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeoc
 hado\, South Korea\, killing 306 people\, mainly students from Danwon High
  School. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-04-16-sinkin
 g-of-mv-sewol\n\nDied 1689: Aphra Behn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra
 _Behn\nBorn 1946: R. Carlos Nakai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Carlos_
 Nakai\nDied 2021: Johnny Peirson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Peir
 son\n\nPictured: Harriet Quimby.
SUMMARY:📅 April 16 · Pope Pelagius I\, Harriet Quimby\, Second Battle o
 f the Aisne\, 2001…
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DESCRIPTION:April 17 in history:\n• 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a 
 month-long siege\, the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle
 \, which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1362-04-17-siege-of-kaunas-1362\n
 • 1783 – The Mechanical Turk (pictured)\, a fraudulent chess-playing "
 machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden
  human\, began a tour of Europe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1783-04-17-mechanical-turk\n• 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was convicte
 d of the assassination of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1969-04-17-sirhan-sirhan\n• 1986 – The
  Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace\, having hypotheticall
 y been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casua
 lties incurred. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1986-04-17
 -three-hundred-and-thirty-five-years-war\n• 2006 – A Palestinian suici
 de bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, kill
 ing 11 people and injuring 70 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2006-04-17-2nd-rosh-ha-ir-restaurant-bombing\n\nBorn 1620: Mar
 guerite Bourgeoys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bourgeoys\nBorn
  1931: Bill Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey_%28singer%29\
 nBorn 1951: Börje Salming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salmin
 g\nDied 1961: Elda Emma Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elda_Emma_A
 nderson\n\nPictured: Cross-section of the Mechanical Turk.
SUMMARY:📅 April 17 · Siege of Kaunas (1362)\, Mechanical Turk\, Sirhan 
 Sirhan\, Three Hundred and…
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DESCRIPTION:April 18 in history:\n• 1881 – The painted ceilings of the 
 Natural History Museum\, London\, were unveiled when the building opened i
 ts doors to the public. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 81-04-18-ceilings-of-the-natural-history-museum-l\n• 1946 – The final 
 session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva\, with delegates agre
 eing to transfer much of its assets to the United Nations. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1946-04-18-league-of-nations\n• 1958 
 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound (pictured) was released from St
 . Elizabeths Hospital\, a psychiatric hospital in Washington\, D.C.\, in w
 hich he had been incarcerated for twelve years. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1958-04-18-ezra-pound\n• 2023 – Fox News agreed 
 to pay Dominion Voting Systems a $787 million settlement over defamation c
 laims related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2023-04-18-dominion-voting-systems-v-fox-news-
 netwo\n\nDied 1161: Theobald of Bec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald
 _of_Bec\nDied 1818: Waxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxy_%28horse%29\nB
 orn 1941: Morgan Hwang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Hwang\nBorn 19
 92: Dzsenifer Marozsán https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzsenifer_Marozs%C3%
 A1n\n\nPictured: Ezra Pound.
SUMMARY:📅 April 18 · ceilings of the Natural History Museum\, London\, 
 League of Nations\, Ezra Pound\,…
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DESCRIPTION:April 19 in history:\n• 1506 – In Lisbon\, Portugal\, a cro
 wd began a massacre of Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1506-04-19-lisbon-massac
 re\n• 1861 – The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place 
 when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore\, Maryland\, attacked members o
 f the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington\, D.C. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1861-04-19-american-civil-war\n• 1971 
 – The Doors (pictured) released L.A. Woman\, their final album during th
 eir lead vocalist Jim Morrison's lifetime. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1971-04-19-l-a-woman\n• 1984 – "Advance Australia Fai
 r"\, written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick\, officially 
 replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1984-04-19-advance-australia-fair\n•
  2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashed in Samal\, Davao del Norte\, 
 killing all 131 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-2000-04-19-air-philippines-flight-541\n• 2020 – A series of att
 acks in Nova Scotia\, Canada\, ended when the perpetrator was killed by po
 lice\, leaving 22 victims dead. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-2020-04-19-2020-nova-scotia-attacks\n\nDied 1781: Elizabeth Raffald 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Raffald\nBorn 1831: Mary Louise Bo
 oth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Louise_Booth\nDied 1988: Kwon Ki-ok
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_Ki-ok\nBorn 2016: The Rizzler https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rizzler\n\nPictured: The Doors.
SUMMARY:📅 April 19 · Lisbon massacre\, Baltimore riot of 1861\, L.A. Wo
 man\, Advance Australia Fair\,…
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DESCRIPTION:April 20 in history:\n• 1535 – Sun dogs were observed over 
 Stockholm\, Sweden\, inspiring Vädersolstavlan\, the oldest coloured depi
 ction of the city. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1535-04
 -20-vadersolstavlan\n• 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: Commanded by
  Napoleon\, Franco-German forces defeated a reinforced Austrian corps at t
 he Battle of Abensberg. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 09-04-20-battle-of-abensberg\n• 1914 – A fire and a gun battle between
  the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners led to 17 deaths in 
 the Ludlow Massacre. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-
 04-20-ludlow-massacre\n• 1922 – The Soviet government created the Sout
 h Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1922-04-20-south-ossetian-autonomous-oblast\n
 • 1939 – Billie Holiday (pictured) recorded the song "Strange Fruit"\,
  which later became an emblem of the civil rights movement. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-04-20-strange-fruit\n• 2021 – D
 erek Chauvin was found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd
  by a Minnesota court. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-202
 1-04-20-derek-chauvin\n\nDied 689: Cædwalla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /C%C3%A6dwalla\nBorn 1826: Dinah Craik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah
 _Craik\nBorn 1916: Yoko Matsuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Matsuo
 ka_%28writer%29\nDied 1969: Vjekoslav Luburić https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Vjekoslav_Luburi%C4%87\n\nPictured: Billie Holiday.
SUMMARY:📅 April 20 · Vädersolstavlan\, Battle of Abensberg\, Ludlow Ma
 ssacre\, South Ossetian…
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DESCRIPTION:April 21 in history:\n• 1526 – Ibrahim Khan Lodi\, the last
  ruler of the Lodi dynasty\, was defeated and killed by Babur at the First
  Battle of Panipat\, marking the beginning of Mughal rule in India. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1526-04-21-ibrahim-khan-lodi\n
 • 1836 – Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated t
 he Mexican troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jac
 into\, the decisive and final battle of the Texas Revolution. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1836-04-21-battle-of-san-jacinto\n• 
 2021 – The Indonesian Navy submarine Nanggala imploded and sank in the B
 ali Sea\, resulting in the deaths of all 53 people on board. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021-04-21-kri-nanggala-1980\n\nDied 86
 6: Bardas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardas\nBorn 1816: Charlotte Bront
 ë https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB\nDied 1981: Dorothy
  Eady https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Eady\nBorn 2003: Xavi Simons h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavi_Simons\n\nPictured: Mausoleum of four Sh
 ia imams.
SUMMARY:📅 April 21 · Ibrahim Khan Lodi\, Battle of San Jacinto\, KRI Na
 nggala (1980)
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DESCRIPTION:April 22 in history:\n• 1073 – Gregory VII was elected pope
  following the death of Alexander II. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1073-04-22-pope-gregory-vii\n• 1864 – U.S. Congress passed
  the Coinage Act\, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece (pic
 tured)\, the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust". /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1864-04-22-two-cent-piece-united-
 states\n• 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attac
 ked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces\, starting
  the Battle of Kapyong. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 51-04-22-battle-of-kapyong\n• 2004 – Flammable cargo exploded at a rai
 lway station in Ryongchon\, North Korea\, killing at least 54 people and i
 njuring more than a thousand others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2004-04-22-ryongchon-disaster\n• 2020 – A truck struck and 
 killed four Victoria Police officers on the Eastern Freeway\, Australia\, 
 the force's deadliest single incident. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-2020-04-22-2020-eastern-freeway-truck-crash\n\nBorn 1766: Ger
 maine de Staël https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl\nBorn
  1830: Emily Davies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davies\nBorn 1976:
  Dan Cloutier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cloutier\nDied 2021: Adria
 n Garrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Garrett\n\nPictured: Two-ce
 nt piece.
SUMMARY:📅 April 22 · Pope Gregory VII\, Two-cent piece (United States)\
 , Battle of Kapyong\, Ryongchon…
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DESCRIPTION:April 23 in history:\n• 1016 – Edmund Ironside became King 
 of England\, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquer
 ed by Cnut the Great. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1016
 -04-23-edmund-ironside\n• 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigat
 e Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay\, the f
 irst ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-04-23-battle-of-caldera-bay\n• 1976 
 – The American band the Ramones released their debut album\, which becam
 e highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-04-23-ramones\n• 2009 – The gamma-
 ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomica
 l object of any kind known at the time. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-2009-04-23-grb-090423\n\nBorn 1895: Ngaio Marsh https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh\nBorn 1901: E. B. Ford https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/E._B._Ford\nBorn 1986: Patricia Paputsakis https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Patricia_Paputsakis\nDied 2021: Dan Kaminsky https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky\n\nPictured: ''Blanco Encalada''.
SUMMARY:📅 April 23 · Edmund Ironside\, Battle of Caldera Bay\, Ramones\
 , GRB 090423
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DESCRIPTION:April 24 in history:\n• 1866 – German composer Max Bruch (p
 ictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1866-04-24-violin-concerto-no-1-bruch\
 n• 1915 – The Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the a
 rrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1915-04-24-armenian-geno
 cide\n• 1944 – World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed
  a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of
  Santorini. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-04-24-rai
 d-on-santorini\n• 2011 – Secret documents relating to detainees at the
  United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks a
 nd several independent news organizations. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-2011-04-24-guantanamo-bay-files-leak\n\nBorn 1581: Vincen
 t de Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_de_Paul\nBorn 1926: Marily
 n Erskine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Erskine\nBorn 1976: Steve 
 Finnan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Finnan\n\nPictured: Max Bruch.
SUMMARY:📅 April 24 · Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch)\, Armenian genocide\
 , Raid on Santorini\,…
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DESCRIPTION:April 25 in history:\n• 775 – The Abbasid army won a decisi
 ve victory over the forces of rebelling Armenian princes at the Battle of 
 Bagrevand. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0775-04-25-batt
 le-of-bagrevand\n• 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: The Ming dynasty of 
 China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant r
 ebellion led by Li Zicheng. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1644-04-25-ming-dynasty\n• 1920 – A march by blind people from acros
 s the United Kingdom to protest poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar
  Square\, London. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-04-
 25-1920-blind-march\n• 1955 – Following restoration at the British Mus
 eum\, the Emesa Helmet was placed on display there (pictured) before its r
 eturn to Syria. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1955-04-25
 -british-museum\n• 2014 – A water crisis began when officials in Flint
 \, Michigan\, switched the city's water supply to the Flint River\, leadin
 g to contamination. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-0
 4-25-flint-water-crisis\n\nBorn 1843: Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom\nBorn 
 1906: Joel Brand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Brand\nBorn 1981: John
  McFall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McFall_%28athlete%29\nBorn 1998
 : Satou Sabally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satou_Sabally\n\nPictured: T
 he Emesa helmet.
SUMMARY:📅 April 25 · Battle of Bagrevand\, Ming dynasty\, 1920 blind ma
 rch\, Emesa Helmet\, Flint water…
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DESCRIPTION:April 26 in history:\n• 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragment
 s fell over L'Aigle\, France\, becoming a milestone in the understanding o
 f meteorites. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1803-04-26-l
 -aigle-meteorite\n• 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded th
 e Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation\, the main anti-fascist Slovene c
 ivil-resistance and political organization during World War II. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-04-26-liberation-front-of-the-s
 lovene-nation\n• 1986 – The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) n
 ear Chernobyl\, Ukrainian SSR\, suffered a steam explosion\, resulting in 
 a fire\, a nuclear meltdown\, and the evacuation and resettlement of over 
 336\,000 people around Europe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1986-04-26-chernobyl-disaster\n• 2017 – The Shandong was launched
  for the People's Liberation Army Navy\, China's first domestically built 
 aircraft carrier. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2017-04-
 26-chinese-aircraft-carrier-shandong\n\nBorn 1886: Ma Rainey https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey\nBorn 1921: Margaret Gowing https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Margaret_Gowing\nDied 1951: Arnold Sommerfeld https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Arnold_Sommerfeld\nBorn 2001: Thiago Almada https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Thiago_Almada\n\nPictured: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
SUMMARY:📅 April 26 · L'Aigle (meteorite)\, Liberation Front of the Slov
 ene Nation\, Chernobyl…
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DESCRIPTION:April 27 in history:\n• 395 – Aelia Eudoxia married Byzanti
 ne emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus\, the Prae
 torian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0395-04-27-aelia-eudoxia\n
 • 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor
 \, better known as "Für Elise"\, one of his most popular compositions. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1810-04-27-fur-elise\n• 19
 36 – The trilogy The Adventure Girls (second book pictured)\, by the chi
 ldren's author Clair Blank\, was copyrighted by A. L. Burt. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-04-27-the-adventure-girls\n• 1997
  – American spree killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Jeffrey Trail\, a forme
 r friend and a Gulf War veteran\, who became the first victim of Cunanan's
  killing spree. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1997-04-27
 -jeffrey-trail\n\nBorn 1759: Mary Wollstonecraft /travel/calendars/writers
 /events/writers-mary-wollstonecraft-q101638\nBorn 1834: Margaret Macpherso
 n Grant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Macpherson_Grant\nBorn 1926
 : Basil A. Paterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_A._Paterson\nBorn 
 1998: Cristian Romero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian_Romero\n\nPic
 tured: ''The Adventure Girls in the Air''.
SUMMARY:📅 April 27 · Aelia Eudoxia\, Für Elise\, The Adventure Girls\,
  Jeffrey Trail
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DESCRIPTION:April 28 in history:\n• 224 – The ancient Iranian Parthian 
 Empire fell to the Sasanids after its forces were defeated at the Battle o
 f Hormozdgan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0224-04-28-p
 arthian-empire\n• 1611 – The University of Santo Tomas (seminary build
 ing pictured) in Manila\, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia 
 and one of the world's largest Catholic universities by enrollment\, was f
 ounded. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1611-04-28-univers
 ity-of-santo-tomas\n• 1972 – Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condem
 ned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Un
 iversity of Glasgow. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-
 04-28-alienation-speech\n• 1996 – A spree shooter carried out the Port
  Arthur massacre\, killing 35 people and injuring 23\, in Tasmania\, promp
 ting stricter gun laws in Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1996-04-28-port-arthur-massacre\n\nDied 1197: Rhys ap Gruffudd 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_ap_Gruffudd\nBorn 1854: Hertha Ayrton h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton\nBorn 1926: Harper Lee https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee\nBorn 2001: Anthony Volpe https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Volpe\n\nPictured: University of Santo Tomas Centra
 l Seminary building.
SUMMARY:📅 April 28 · Parthian Empire\, University of Santo Tomas\, Alie
 nation (speech)\, Port Arthur…
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DESCRIPTION:April 29 in history:\n• 1386 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  decisively won the Battle of the Vikhra River\, forcibly making the Princ
 ipality of Smolensk a vassal state. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1386-04-29-battle-of-the-vikhra-river\n• 1826 – In Parramatt
 a\, Australia\, Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A (p
 ictured)\, which was later recognised as one of the nearest radio galaxies
  to Earth. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1826-04-29-cent
 aurus-a\n• 1922 – Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first wom
 an to walk from London to Brighton. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1922-04-29-london-to-brighton-walk\n• 1991 – A powerful trop
 ical cyclone struck Chittagong\, Bangladesh\, killing at least 138\,000 pe
 ople and leaving up to 10 million homeless across the region. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-04-29-1991-bangladesh-cyclone\n
 • 2011 – Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of million
 s\, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abb
 ey in London. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-04-29-w
 edding-of-prince-william-and-catherine\n\nBorn 1665: James Butler\, 2nd Du
 ke of Ormonde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Butler%2C_2nd_Duke_of_Or
 monde\nBorn 1858: Georgia Hopley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Hop
 ley\nDied 1931: Elisabeth Mills Reid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabe
 th_Mills_Reid\nBorn 2001: JJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ_%28singer%29
 \n\nPictured: alt=Centaurus A.
SUMMARY:📅 April 29 · Battle of the Vikhra River\, Centaurus A\, London 
 to Brighton walk\, 1991…
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DESCRIPTION:April 30 in history:\n• 313 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: 
 An outnumbered army led by Roman emperor Licinius defeated his rival Maxim
 inus II's forces at the Battle of Tzirallum. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-0313-04-30-licinius\n• 1006 – SN 1006\, the brighte
 st supernova in recorded history\, first appeared in the constellation Lup
 us. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1006-04-30-sn-1006\n
 • 1789 – George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the f
 irst president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1789-04-30-george-washington\n
 • 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two cele
 brities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Ch
 inese Theatre in Hollywood\, California. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1927-04-30-grauman-s-chinese-theatre\n• 1994 – Riverdan
 ce was performed for the first time\, as the interval act for the Eurovisi
 on Song Contest. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-04-3
 0-riverdance\n• 2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi\, China\, killed three
  people and injured 79 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-2014-04-30-april-2014-urumqi-attack\n\nDied 783: Hildegard https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_%28queen%29\nBorn 1926: Cloris Leachman http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloris_Leachman\nBorn 1976: Victor Glover https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glover\n\nPictured: George Washington.
SUMMARY:📅 April 30 · Licinius\, SN 1006\, George Washington\, Grauman's
  Chinese Theatre\, Riverdance\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 1 in history:\n• 880 – The Nea Ekklesia church in Const
 antinople\, on which many later cross-in-square Eastern Orthodox churches 
 were based\, was consecrated. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-0880-05-01-nea-ekklesia\n• 1576 – Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiel
 lon were crowned as the elected rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwe
 alth. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1576-05-01-stephen-b
 athory\n• 1941 – Citizen Kane\, a widely acclaimed film by actor and d
 irector Orson Welles\, premiered. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1941-05-01-citizen-kane\n• 2002 – The Horncastle boar's head (
 pictured)\, which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon
  helmet\, was found. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2002-
 05-01-horncastle-boar-s-head\n\nBorn 1285: Edmund Fitzalan\, 2nd Earl of A
 rundel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fitzalan%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Arunde
 l\nDied 1780: Honora Sneyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honora_Sneyd\nBor
 n 1926: Peter Lax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lax\nBorn 2004: Char
 li D'Amelio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli_D%27Amelio\n\nPictured: H
 orncastle boar's head.
SUMMARY:📅 May 1 · Nea Ekklesia\, Stephen Báthory\, Citizen Kane\, Horn
 castle boar's head
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DESCRIPTION:May 2 in history:\n• 1194 – King Richard I of England gave 
 the city of Portsmouth its first royal charter. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1194-05-02-portsmouth\n• 1878 – A dust explosion
  (depicted) at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 1
 8 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1878-05-02-great
 -mill-disaster\n• 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident whil
 e leading the Tour de Corse rally\, resulting in FISA banning the popular 
 Group B rally cars for the following season. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1986-05-02-henri-toivonen\n• 2003 – Cyclone Manou f
 ormed in the Indian Ocean\; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar a
 nd left more than 100\,000 people homeless. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-2003-05-02-cyclone-manou\n• 2011 – Osama bin Laden w
 as killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound i
 n Abbottabad\, Pakistan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 011-05-02-killing-of-osama-bin-laden\n\nBorn 1360: Yongle Emperor https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Emperor\nBorn 1806: Catherine Labouré https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Labour%C3%A9\nBorn 1881: George Went Hen
 sley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Went_Hensley\nBorn 2015: Princes
 s Charlotte of Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Charlotte_of_W
 ales_%28born_2015%29\n\nPictured: Great Mill Disaster illustration.
SUMMARY:📅 May 2 · Portsmouth\, Great Mill Disaster\, Henri Toivonen\, C
 yclone Manou\, Killing of…
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DESCRIPTION:May 3 in history:\n• 1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga\, the ruler of the
  Kingdom of Kongo\, was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1491-05-03-joao-i-of-kongo\n
 • 1848 – Thomas Bateman excavated a high-status barrow\, discovering o
 bjects including the boar-crested Benty Grange helmet\, and the Benty Gran
 ge hanging bowl /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1848-05-03
 -benty-grange-helmet\n• 1616 – The Treaty of Loudun was signed\, endin
 g a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1616-05-03-treaty-of-loudun
 \n• 1911 – Edith Maryon's statuette The Dance of Anitra (pictured)\, o
 ne of the few of her works known to survive in private hands\, was exhibit
 ed at the Royal Academy of Arts. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1911-05-03-the-dance-of-anitra\n• 2021 – An elevated section of
  the Mexico City Metro collapsed\, killing 26 people and injuring 98 other
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021-05-03-mexico-city-
 metro-overpass-collapse\n\nDied 1606: Henry Garnet https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Henry_Garnet\nBorn 1632: Catherine of St. Augustine https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_St._Augustine\nBorn 1941: Nona Gaprindashvili 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili\nBorn 2003: Florian Wirt
 z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Wirtz\n\nPictured: border=yes.
SUMMARY:📅 May 3 · João I of Kongo\, Benty Grange helmet\, Treaty of Lo
 udun\, The Dance of Anitra\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 4 in history:\n• 1626 – Having been appointed the direc
 tor-general of New Netherland\, Peter Minuit arrived in Manhattan. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1626-05-04-new-netherland\n• 17
 76 – American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plan
 tations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegian
 ce to the British Crown. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 776-05-04-colony-of-rhode-island-and-providence-pl\n• 1886 – During a 
 labor rally in Chicago\, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of
  eight police officers and four members of the public. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1886-05-04-haymarket-affair\n• 1919 – The
  May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student demonstration
 s in Tiananmen Square\, Beijing. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1919-05-04-may-fourth-movement\n• 2019 – The inaugural race of 
 the W Series took place at Hockenheimring\, Germany\, and was won by Jamie
  Chadwick (pictured)\, who later became the season's champion. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-05-04-2019-w-series\n\nDied 1826
 : Sebastián Kindelán https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Kindel
 %C3%A1n\nBorn 1926: Bety Nelly Andrés https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bety_
 Nelly_Andr%C3%A9s\nBorn 1989: Dianna Cowern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Dianna_Cowern\nBorn 2001: Joan Garcia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_G
 arcia\n\nPictured: Jamie Chadwick.
SUMMARY:📅 May 4 · New Netherland\, Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc
 e Plantations\, Haymarket…
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DESCRIPTION:May 5 in history:\n• 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace\, which
  pardoned the people of Scotland for any crimes committed during the Wars 
 of the Three Kingdoms\, was proclaimed in Edinburgh. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1654-05-05-cromwell-s-act-of-grace\n• 1936 
 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops (pictured) captured the Eth
 iopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1936-05-05-march-of-the-iron-will\n• 1961 – Project Mercur
 y: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board
  Freedom 7\, becoming the second person to travel into outer space. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-05-05-alan-shepard\n• 202
 0 – Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the
  National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its
  franchise granted in 1995. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-2020-05-05-shutdown-of-abs-cbn-broadcasting\n\nBorn 1479: Guru Amar Das 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Amar_Das\nDied 1582: Charlotte of Bourb
 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Bourbon\nBorn 1883: Anna Joh
 nson Pell Wheeler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Johnson_Pell_Wheeler\
 nBorn 1984: Chris Birchall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Birchall\n\
 nPictured: Italian troops in Addis Ababa.
SUMMARY:📅 May 5 · Cromwell's Act of Grace\, March of the Iron Will\, Al
 an Shepard\, Shutdown of…
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DESCRIPTION:May 6 in history:\n• 1536 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Em
 pire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege
  of Cusco. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1536-05-06-sieg
 e-of-cusco\n• 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was adm
 itted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London\, beginning his six-yea
 r confinement in mental asylums. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1757-05-06-christopher-smart\n• 1801 – French Revolutionary War
 s: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and ou
 tgunned. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1801-05-06-action
 -of-6-may-1801\n• 1941 – American entertainer Bob Hope performed his f
 irst show with the United Service Organizations\, beginning a 50-year invo
 lvement with them. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-05
 -06-bob-hope\n• 1976 – An earthquake struck Northern Italy\, killing 9
 90 people and injuring up to 3\,000. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1976-05-06-1976-friuli-earthquake\n• 2023 – King Charles II
 I and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2023-05-06-charles-iii\n\nBorn 1501
 : Pope Marcellus II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Marcellus_II\nBorn 
 1775: Mary Martha Sherwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Martha_Sherw
 ood\nBorn 1987: Dries Mertens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dries_Mertens\
 nDied 2006: Lillian Asplund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Asplund\
 n\nPictured: Christopher Smart.
SUMMARY:📅 May 6 · Siege of Cusco\, Christopher Smart\, Action of 6 May 
 1801\, Bob Hope\, 1976 Friuli…
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DESCRIPTION:May 7 in history:\n• 351 – Jews in the Roman province of Sy
 ria Palaestina rebelled against the rule of Constantius Gallus (pictured)\
 , caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-0351-05-07-jewish-revolt-against-constantius-gallus\n• 1544 
 – During the Rough Wooing\, an English army carried out the Burning of E
 dinburgh. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1544-05-07-burni
 ng-of-edinburgh\n• 1991 – A fire and explosion at a fireworks factory 
 in Sungai Buloh\, Malaysia\, killed 26 people. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1991-05-07-bright-sparklers-fireworks-disaster\n• 2
 010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published\, demonst
 rating that most living humans have Neanderthal ancestors. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-05-07-interbreeding-between-archaic-
 and-modern\n• 2023 – A tourist boat capsized\, killing at least 22 peo
 ple in Tanur\, India. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2023
 -05-07-2023-tanur-boat-disaster\n\nPictured: Constantius Gallus.
SUMMARY:📅 May 7 · Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus\, Burning of
  Edinburgh\, Bright…
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DESCRIPTION:May 8 in history:\n• 1373 – Julian of Norwich experienced r
 eligious visions\, later recorded in Revelations of Divine Love\, the earl
 iest surviving English-language work attributed to a woman. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1373-05-08-julian-of-norwich\n• 1821 
 – Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn\, a 120-man Gre
 ek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8\,000 sol
 diers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1821-05-08-battle-o
 f-gravia-inn\n• 1976 – Great American Revolution opened at Six Flags M
 agic Mountain\, California. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1976-05-08-the-great-american-revolution\n• 2025 – Cardinal Robert F
 rancis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV (pictured)\, making him the fir
 st pope born in the United States\, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruv
 ian citizenship\, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine\, and the se
 cond from the Americas after his immediate predecessor\, Pope Francis. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2025-05-08-pope-leo-xiv\n\nDi
 ed 1551: Barbara Radziwiłł https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Radziwi
 %C5%82%C5%82\nBorn 1876: Ludvig Karsten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludv
 ig_Karsten\nBorn 1926: David Attenborough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da
 vid_Attenborough\nBorn 1976: Ian "H" Watkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Ian_%22H%22_Watkins\n\nPictured: Pope Leo&nbsp\;XIV.
SUMMARY:📅 May 8 · Julian of Norwich\, Battle of Gravia Inn\, The New Re
 volution\, Pope Leo XIV
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DESCRIPTION:May 9 in history:\n• 1761 – The inaugural exhibition of the
  Society of Artists of Great Britain opened at Spring Gardens in London. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1761-05-09-exhibition-of-17
 61\n• 1864 – Second Schleswig War: The Battle of Heligoland (depicted)
 \, the last naval engagement fought by squadrons of wooden ships\, took pl
 ace between the Danish and Austro-Prussian fleets. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1864-05-09-battle-of-heligoland-1864\n• 1961 
 – In a speech to U.S. broadcasters\, Newton Minow\, the chairman of the 
 Federal Communications Commission\, described commercial television progra
 mming as "a vast wasteland". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1961-05-09-television-and-the-public-interest\n• 2001 – Police at t
 he Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra\, Ghana\, fired tear gas to quell unrest at
  a football match\, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-05-09-accra-sports-stadium-di
 saster\n• 2023 – Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arr
 est of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-2023-05-09-may-9-riots\n\nDied 1791: Francis Hopk
 inson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hopkinson\nBorn 1801: Peter He
 sketh-Fleetwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hesketh-Fleetwood\nBor
 n 1995: Beth Mead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Mead\nDied 2022: Riek
 o Kodama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieko_Kodama\n\nPictured: Battle of
  Heligoland.
SUMMARY:📅 May 9 · Exhibition of 1761\, Battle of Heligoland (1864)\, Te
 levision and the Public…
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DESCRIPTION:May 10 in history:\n• 1627 – Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts wa
 s appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East Indi
 a Company. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1627-05-10-piet
 er-nuyts\n• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary corsairs of Tripoli 
 declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff in front o
 f the U.S. consulate. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1801
 -05-10-barbary-corsairs\n• 1941 – World War II: German Deputy Führer 
 Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate
  peace with the British government. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1941-05-10-rudolf-hess\n• 1994 – American serial killer John
  Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve tee
 nage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and
  1978. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-05-10-john-way
 ne-gacy\n• 2012 – Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs outside a mi
 litary intelligence complex in Damascus\, killing 55 people. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2012-05-10-10-may-2012-damascus-bombing
 s\n\nDied 884: Ahmad ibn Tulun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Tul
 un\nBorn 1893: Tonita Peña https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonita_Pe%C3%B1a
 \nBorn 1963: Lisa Nowak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak\nBorn 199
 7: Richarlison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richarlison\n\nPictured: Rudo
 lf Hess.
SUMMARY:📅 May 10 · Pieter Nuyts\, First Barbary War\, Rudolf Hess\, Joh
 n Wayne Gacy\, 10 May 2012…
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DESCRIPTION:May 11 in history:\n• 1813 – William Lawson\, Gregory Blaxl
 and and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition t
 o become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1813-05-11-1813-crossing-of-the-
 blue-mountains\n• 1894 – In response to a 28-percent wage cut\, 4\,000
  Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois\, bringing 
 rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1894-05-11-pullman-strike\n• 1981 – Andrew Lloyd Webber'
 s Cats (performers pictured)\, opened at the New London Theatre. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-05-11-cats-musical\n• 2011 
 – An earthquake registering Mw 5.1\, the worst to hit the region for mor
 e than 50 years\, struck near Lorca\, Spain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2011-05-11-2011-lorca-earthquake\n• 2022 – Palestin
 ian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while report
 ing on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin refugee camp. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2022-05-11-shireen-abu-akleh\n\nBorn
  1811: Chang and Eng Bunker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bu
 nker\nBorn 1951: Ed Stelmach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Stelmach\nBo
 rn 2003: Fermín López https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferm%C3%ADn_L%C3%B3p
 ez\nDied 2023: Sue Maroroa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Maroroa\n\nPi
 ctured: alt=Cast of a 2011 production of Cats.
SUMMARY:📅 May 11 · 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains\, Pullman Strike
 \, Cats (musical)\, 2011…
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DESCRIPTION:May 12 in history:\n• 1510 – Zhu Zhifan\, the Prince of Anh
 ua (in modern Shaanxi\, China)\, began an unsuccessful rebellion against t
 he reign of the Zhengde Emperor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1510-05-12-zhu-zhifan\n• 1846 – The Donner Party\, an American 
 pioneer group which became known for resorting to cannibalism when they be
 came trapped in the Sierra Nevada\, left Independence\, Missouri\, for Cal
 ifornia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1846-05-12-donner
 -party\n• 1926 – The crew of the airship Norge (pictured)\, led by Roa
 ld Amundsen\, became the first people to make a verified trip to the North
  Pole. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1926-05-12-norge-ai
 rship\n• 1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3\, the fir
 st working programmable and fully automatic computer\, to an audience of s
 cientists in Berlin. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-
 05-12-z3-computer\n• 2015 – A train derailment killed eight people and
  injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2015-05-12-2015-philadelphia-train-derailment\n\nDied
  1161: Fergus of Galloway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_of_Galloway
 \nBorn 1899: Indra Devi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra_Devi\nBorn 192
 6: Marilyn Knowlden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Knowlden\nBorn 2
 006: Vasilije Adžić https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilije_Ad%C5%BEi%C4%
 87\n\nPictured: Roald Amundsen's airship ''Norge''.
SUMMARY:📅 May 12 · Zhu Zhifan\, Donner Party\, Norge (airship)\, Z3 (co
 mputer)\, 2015 Philadelphia…
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DESCRIPTION:May 13 in history:\n• 1110 – Baldwin I of Jerusalem capture
 d Beirut from the Fatimid Caliphate with the help of a Genoese fleet. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1110-05-13-siege-of-beirut-111
 0\n• 1725 – Johann Sebastian Bach first performed the church cantata S
 ie werden euch in den Bann tun\, BWV 183 in Leipzig\, Germany. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1725-05-13-sie-werden-euch-in-den-ban
 n-tun-bwv-183\n• 1958 – The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin (pictured
 ) became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehi
 cle\, having travelled over 80\,000 kilometres (50\,000 miles) by land and
  sea. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1958-05-13-ben-carli
 n\n• 1985 – Eleven people\, including five children\, were killed afte
 r the Philadelphia Police Department dropped bombs from a helicopter durin
 g a raid on a house occupied by the Black liberation group MOVE. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-05-13-1985-move-bombing\n• 2
 005 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired at
  protesters in Andijan\, killing between 187 and 1\,500 people. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-05-13-andijan-massacre\n\nBorn 
 1859: Kate Marsden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Marsden\nBorn 1888: 
 Inge Lehmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann\nBorn 1983: Domhna
 ll Gleeson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domhnall_Gleeson\nBorn 1993: Rome
 lu Lukaku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romelu_Lukaku\n\nPictured: Ben Car
 lin.
SUMMARY:📅 May 13 · Siege of Beirut (1110)\, Sie werden euch in den Bann
  tun\, BWV 183\, Ben Carlin\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 14 in history:\n• 1804 – Led by Meriwether Lewis and Wi
 lliam Clark\, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Har
 tford\, Illinois\, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coas
 t of the United States and back. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1804-05-14-lewis-and-clark-expedition\n• 1856 – Major Henry C. 
 Wayne arrived in Indianola\, Texas\, with 34 camels to form the short-live
 d United States Camel Corps. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1856-05-14-united-states-camel-corps\n• 1868 – Boshin War: Troops o
 f the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and
  retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1868-05-14-battle-of-utsunomiya-castle\n• 1980 – Salva
 doran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul Riv
 er to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces\, resu
 lting in at least 300 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1980-05-14-sumpul-river-massacre\n• 2008 – On the day of the UEFA 
 Cup Final\, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both 
 teams and the Greater Manchester Police\, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 i
 njured officers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-05-1
 4-2008-uefa-cup-final-riots\n\nDied 1080: Walcher https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Walcher\nDied 1856: Théodore Guérin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Th%C3%A9odore_Gu%C3%A9rin\nBorn 1944: George Lucas https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/George_Lucas\nBorn 1995: Rose Lavelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Rose_Lavelle\n\nPictured: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
SUMMARY:📅 May 14 · Lewis and Clark Expedition\, United States Camel Cor
 ps\, Battle of Utsunomiya…
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DESCRIPTION:May 15 in history:\n• 1836 – English astronomer Francis Bai
 ly observed Baily's beads (example pictured)\, a phenomenon during a solar
  eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight 
 to shine through. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1836-05-
 15-francis-baily\n• 1891 – Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum n
 ovarum\, which addressed the condition of the working classes and is consi
 dered to be the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-05-15-rerum-novarum\n• 1966 
 – Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính handling of the Buddhist Up
 rising\, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an atta
 ck on his forces and ousted Đính from his post. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1966-05-15-ton-th-t-dinh\n• 2001 – A runaway t
 rain loaded with hazardous chemicals traveled driverless for through Ohio 
 before being stopped near Kenton. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-2001-05-15-csx-8888-incident\n• 2010 – Three days before her s
 eventeenth birthday\, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-s
 top and unassisted around the world. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2010-05-15-jessica-watson\n\nBorn 1689: Lady Mary Wortley Monta
 gu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu\nBorn 1997: Ous
 mane Dembélé https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Demb%C3%A9l%C3%A9\nBo
 rn 2006: Haerin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haerin\n\nPictured: Baily's 
 beads observed during [[Solar eclipse of July 2\, 2019.
SUMMARY:📅 May 15 · Francis Baily\, Rerum novarum\, Tôn Thất Đính\,
  CSX 8888 incident\, Jessica Watson
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DESCRIPTION:May 16 in history:\n• 1426 – Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing
  to become the king of Ava\, in present-day Myanmar. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1426-05-16-mohnyin-thado\n• 1811 – Peninsul
 ar War: Allied British\, Spanish\, and Portuguese forces clashed with Fren
 ch troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz\, Spain. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1811-05-16-battle-of-albuera\n
 • 1881 – John Richard Clark Hall\, a barrister who would go on to writ
 e a widely used Anglo-Saxon dictionary and translation of Beowulf\, was ad
 mitted to Gray's Inn. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1881
 -05-16-john-richard-clark-hall\n• 1968 – A gas explosion in Ronan Poin
 t (collapse pictured) causes a corner of the building to collapse\, leadin
 g to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-05-16-ronan-point\n• 201
 4 – At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs 
 exploded in a market in Nairobi\, Kenya. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-2014-05-16-gikomba-bombings\n\nBorn 1926: Glen Michael http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Michael\nDied 1926: Mehmed VI https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_VI\nBorn 1956: Faustas Latėnas https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Faustas_Lat%C4%97nas\nBorn 1988: Amanda Asay https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Amanda_Asay\n\nPictured: Ronan Point collapse.
SUMMARY:📅 May 16 · Mohnyin Thado\, Battle of Albuera\, John Richard Cla
 rk Hall\, Ronan Point\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 17 in history:\n• 1395 – An outnumbered Wallachian army
  repulsed invading Ottoman forces at the Battle of Rovine. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1395-05-17-battle-of-rovine\n• 1521 –
  Edward Stafford (pictured)\, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling
  against King Richard III of England\, was himself executed for treason ag
 ainst King Henry VIII. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-152
 1-05-17-edward-stafford-3rd-duke-of-buckingham\n• 1900 – Second Boer W
 ar: The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa was lifted after 217 days\, a de
 cisive victory for the British against the Boers. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1900-05-17-siege-of-mafeking\n• 1974 – The Tro
 ubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dubli
 n and Monaghan\, Ireland\, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 other
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-05-17-dublin-and-m
 onaghan-bombings\n• 1995 – Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima\, the 11t
 h Panchen Lama selected by the 14th Dalai Lama\, was kidnapped by the Chin
 ese government\, who advocated a proxy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1995-05-17-gedhun-choekyi-nyima\n\nBorn 1551: Martin Delrio 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Delrio\nDied 1951: William Birdwood h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Birdwood\nDied 1981: Jeannette Piccar
 d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Piccard\nBorn 1998: Patricia Gui
 jarro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Guijarro\n\nPictured: Edward 
 Stafford.
SUMMARY:📅 May 17 · Battle of Rovine\, Edward Stafford\, 3rd Duke of Buc
 kingham\, Siege of Mafeking\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 18 in history:\n• 1388 – At the Battle of Buir Lake\, a
  Ming Chinese army led by general Lan Yu defeated the forces of Tögüs Te
 mür\, the Mongol khan of Northern Yuan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1388-05-18-battle-of-buir-lake\n• 1927 – Disgruntled sc
 hool board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rif
 le\, causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in M
 ichigan\, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in Un
 ited States history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1927-
 05-18-bath-school-disaster\n• 1936 – In a crime that captivated Japan\
 , Sada Abe strangled her lover\, cut off his genitals\, and carried them a
 round with her for several days until her arrest. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1936-05-18-sada-abe\n• 2006 – The Parliament o
 f Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-05-18-2006-nepalese-re
 volution\n• 2018 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santia
 go de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airp
 ort\, killing 112 of the 113 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-2018-05-18-cubana-de-aviacion-flight-0972\n\nDied 526:
  Pope John I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_I\nDied 1910: Eliza O
 rzeszkowa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Orzeszkowa\nBorn 1969: Delcy
  Rodríguez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez\nBorn 2000:
  Ryan Sessegnon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Sessegnon\n\nPictured: 
 The Bath School after the explosions.
SUMMARY:📅 May 18 · Battle of Buir Lake\, Bath School disaster\, Sada Ab
 e\, 2006 Nepalese revolution\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 19 in history:\n• 715 – Gregory II began his pontificat
 e\; his conflict with Byzantine emperor Leo III eventually led to the esta
 blishment of the temporal power of the pope. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-0715-05-19-pope-gregory-ii\n• 1655 – Anglo-Spanish 
 War: English forces invaded Jamaica\, then administered by Spain as the Co
 lony of Santiago\, and captured it a week later. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1655-05-19-invasion-of-jamaica\n• 1674 – John I
 II Sobieski (pictured) was elected by the szlachta as the monarch of the P
 olish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1674-05-19-john-iii-sobieski\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary W
 ar: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British tr
 oops at the Battle of the Cedars. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1776-05-19-battle-of-the-cedars\n• 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavi
 a: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum\, Croatians vo
 ted in favour of independence from Yugoslavia. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1991-05-19-1991-croatian-independence-referendum\n•
  2015 – A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach\, California\, spil
 led 142\,800 gallons (3\,400 barrels) of crude oil onto the Gaviota Coast.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-05-19-refugio-oil-sp
 ill\n\nBorn 1476: Helena of Moscow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_of
 _Moscow\nBorn 1861: Nellie Melba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Melb
 a\nBorn 2002: Riccardo Calafiori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Ca
 lafiori\nDied 2011: Jeffrey Catherine Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Jeffrey_Catherine_Jones\n\nPictured: John&nbsp\;III Sobieski.
SUMMARY:📅 May 19 · Pope Gregory II\, Invasion of Jamaica\, John III Sob
 ieski\, Battle of the Cedars\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 20 in history:\n• 685 – The Picts defeated the Northumb
 rians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain\, severely weakening the latter's powe
 r in northern Great Britain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-0685-05-20-battle-of-dun-nechtain\n• 1811 – A British squadron unde
 r Charles Marsh Schomberg defeated a French force off Tamatave\, Madagasca
 r\, that was attempting to reinforce the French garrison on Mauritius. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1811-05-20-battle-of-tamatave
 \n• 1943 – The Luttra Woman (skull pictured)\, a bog body from the Ear
 ly Neolithic period\, was discovered near Luttra\, Sweden. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-05-20-luttra-woman\n• 1996 – In 
 deciding Romer v. Evans\, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a constitutio
 nal amendment in Colorado that prevented protected status under the law fo
 r homosexuals or bisexuals. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1996-05-20-romer-v-evans\n• 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claim
 ed full control of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2022-05-20-siege-of-mariupol\n\nDied 1
 476: Isabel Ingoldisthorpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Ingoldisth
 orpe\nBorn 1918: Aleksandra Boiko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra
 _Boiko\nBorn 1976: Ramón Hernández https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%
 B3n_Hern%C3%A1ndez\nBorn 2012: Doug the Pug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Doug_the_Pug\n\nPictured: The Luttra Woman's skull.
SUMMARY:📅 May 20 · Battle of Dun Nechtain\, Battle of Tamatave\, Luttra
  Woman\, Romer v. Evans\,…
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DESCRIPTION:May 21 in history:\n• 1138 – The Crusades: The siege of Sha
 izar ended\, and the Emir of Shaizar became a vassal of the Byzantine Empi
 re. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1138-05-21-crusades\n
 • 1864 – American Civil War: The inconclusive Battle of Spotsylvania C
 ourt House in Virginia ended with combined Union and Confederate casualtie
 s totaling around 31\,000. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1864-05-21-battle-of-spotsylvania-court-house\n• 1925 – The opera Dok
 tor Faust\, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni (pictured) died\, wa
 s premiered in Dresden. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 25-05-21-doktor-faust\n• 1946 – While working with a mass of plutonium
  known as the demon core\, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accide
 ntally exposed himself to a lethal dose of hard radiation\, making him the
  second victim of a criticality accident in history. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1946-05-21-plutonium\n• 2015 – Islamic Stat
 e militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-2015-05-21-palmyra\n\nBorn 1806: Harriet Sutherland
 -Leveson-Gower\, Duchess of Sutherland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harri
 et_Sutherland-Leveson-Gower%2C_Duchess_of_Sutherland\nBorn 1855: Ella Stew
 art Udall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall\nBorn 1976: Stu
 art Bingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Bingham\nDied 1981: Patsy
  O'Hara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_O%27Hara\n\nPictured: Busoni c
 . 1897.
SUMMARY:📅 May 21 · siege of Shaizar\, Battle of Spotsylvania Court Hous
 e\, Doktor Faust\, demon…
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DESCRIPTION:May 22 in history:\n• 1629 – Albrecht von Wallenstein and K
 ing Christian IV of Denmark signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish int
 ervention in the Thirty Years' War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1629-05-22-treaty-of-lubeck\n• 1826 – HMS Beagle (pictured) 
 departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of th
 e Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1826-05-22-hms-beagle\n• 1960 – The m
 ost powerful earthquake ever recorded\, registering approximately 9.5 Mw\,
  struck near Valdivia\, Chile\, generating tsunamis that reached Hawaii an
 d Japan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-05-22-1960-v
 aldivia-earthquake\n• 2002 – Police announced that the skeletal remain
 s of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy\, who had been missing 
 for a year\, had been found in Rock Creek Park in Washington\, D.C. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2002-05-22-killing-of-chandra-le
 vy\n\nBorn 626: Itzam Kʼan Ahk I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzam_K%CA
 %BCan_Ahk_I\nBorn 1846: Rita Cetina Gutiérrez https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Rita_Cetina_Guti%C3%A9rrez\nBorn 1914: Sun Ra https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Sun_Ra\nBorn 2001: Joshua Zirkzee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshu
 a_Zirkzee\n\nPictured: HMS ''Beagle''.
SUMMARY:📅 May 22 · Treaty of Lübeck\, HMS Beagle\, 1960 Valdivia earth
 quake\, Killing of Chandra Levy
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DESCRIPTION:May 23 in history:\n• 1706 – War of the Spanish Succession:
  The Grand Alliance armies routed the Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army in Rami
 llies\, present-day Belgium. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1706-05-23-battle-of-ramillies\n• 1980 – The Shining\, the psycholo
 gical horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick (pictured)\, premiered on 10
  screens in New York City and Los Angeles. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1980-05-23-the-shining-film\n• 2008 – The Internation
 al Court of Justice awarded the Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca 
 to Singapore\, resolving a 29-year-old territorial dispute in the Singapor
 e Strait. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-05-23-pedra
 -branca-dispute\n• 2021 – Ryanair Flight 4978 was forced to land by Be
 larusian authorities\, who detained dissident journalist Roman Protasevich
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2021-05-23-ryanair-fligh
 t-4978\n\nDied 1752: William Bradford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia
 m_Bradford_%28printer%2C_born_1663%29\nBorn 1810: Margaret Fuller https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller\nBorn 1926: Basil Salvadore D'Souza 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Salvadore_D%27Souza\nBorn 1926: Aileen
  Hernandez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Hernandez\nBorn 2001: Bren
 nan Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_Johnson\n\nPictured: Sta
 nley Kubrick.
SUMMARY:📅 May 23 · Battle of Ramillies\, The Shining (film)\, Pedra Bra
 nca dispute\, Ryanair Flight…
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DESCRIPTION:May 24 in history:\n• 1667 – Led by King Louis XIV\, the Fr
 ench army invaded the Spanish Netherlands\, beginning the War of Devolutio
 n. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1667-05-24-war-of-devol
 ution\n• 1830 – The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first p
 ublished as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1830-05-24-mary-had-a-little-lamb\n• 1976 – In a wine 
 competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured)\, French judges shocked the wi
 ne industry by rating California wines higher than French ones. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-05-24-judgment-of-paris-wine\n
 • 1986 – A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea\, lea
 ding to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba\
 , the Dominican Republic\, Haiti and Jamaica. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1986-05-24-1986-jamaica-floods\n• 2022 – An 18-yea
 r old gunman shot and killed nineteen students and two teachers in a mass 
 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde\, Texas. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2022-05-24-uvalde-school-shooting\n\nBorn 1576
 : Elizabeth Carey\, Lady Berkeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_
 Carey%2C_Lady_Berkeley\nBorn 1628: Marek Sobieski https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Marek_Sobieski_%281628%E2%80%931652%29\nBorn 1925: Carmine Infantino
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Infantino\nDied 2021: Beverly White
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_White\n\nPictured: Bottle of 1973 C
 hateau Montelena Chardonnay.
SUMMARY:📅 May 24 · War of Devolution\, Mary Had a Little Lamb\, Judgmen
 t of Paris (wine)\, 1986…
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DESCRIPTION:May 25 in history:\n• 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: Ming g
 eneral Wu Sangui allowed the invading Manchu to cross the Great Wall of Ch
 ina\, enabling them to capture Beijing and establish the Qing dynasty. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1644-05-25-great-wall-of-chin
 a\n• 1816 – The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel
  Taylor Coleridge were published. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1816-05-25-kubla-khan\n• 1961 – A fire broke out at a squatter
  settlement in Bukit Ho Swee\, Singapore\, rendering approximately 16\,000
  people homeless. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-05-
 25-bukit-ho-swee-fire\n• 2011 – The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey
  Show\, the highest-rated daytime talk show in U.S. television history\, h
 osted by Oprah Winfrey (pictured)\, was broadcast. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-2011-05-25-the-oprah-winfrey-show\n\nBorn 1899: P
 anka Pelishek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panka_Pelishek\nBorn 1926: Wil
 liam Bowyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowyer_%28artist%29\nBor
 n 1976: Cillian Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillian_Murphy\nBorn 
 2001: Chloé Lukasiak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9_Lukasiak\n\
 nPictured: Oprah Winfrey.
SUMMARY:📅 May 25 · Great Wall of China\, Kubla Khan\, Bukit Ho Swee fir
 e\, The Oprah Winfrey Show
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DESCRIPTION:May 26 in history:\n• 946 – King Edmund I (pictured) of Eng
 land was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0946-05-26-edmund-i\n• 1906 
 – Vauxhall Bridge in London opened\, crossing the River Thames between V
 auxhall and Westminster. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 906-05-26-vauxhall-bridge\n• 1940 – Second World War: The Allies began
  a mass evacuation of British\, French and Belgian troops cut off by the G
 erman army during the Battle of Dunkirk. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1940-05-26-dunkirk-evacuation\n• 1989 – Tropical Storm 
 Cecil dissipated over Laos after devastating Quảng Nam province\, Vietna
 m\, and causing the deaths of 751 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1989-05-26-tropical-storm-cecil\n• 2020 – Protests fol
 lowing the murder of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis–Saint Paul befo
 re spreading across the United States and internationally. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2020-05-26-george-floyd-protests\n\nDied 
 926: Yuan Xingqin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Xingqin\nBorn 1926: M
 iles Davis /travel/calendars/composers/events/composers-miles-davis-q93341
 \nBorn 1956: Jyoti Gogte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoti_Gogte\nBorn 2
 000: Yeji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeji_%28singer%29\n\nPictured: Edm
 und&nbsp\;I.
SUMMARY:📅 May 26 · Edmund I\, Vauxhall Bridge\, Dunkirk evacuation\, Tr
 opical Storm Cecil\, George…
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DESCRIPTION:May 27 in history:\n• 1096 – The largest of the Rhineland m
 assacres (depicted) took place in Mainz\, where at least 1\,100 Jews were 
 killed by the People's Crusade. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1096-05-27-rhineland-massacres\n• 1896 – One of the deadliest an
 d most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history struck St. Louis\, Missouri\,
  and East St. Louis\, Illinois\, killing more than 255 people and injuring
  at least 1\,000 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 896-05-27-1896-st-louis-east-st-louis-tornado\n• 1983 – An explosion a
 t an illegal fireworks factory near Benton\, Tennessee\, killed eleven peo
 ple. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-05-27-benton-fir
 eworks-disaster\n• 2001 – Twenty tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf
  militants in Palawan\, Philippines\, triggering a hostage crisis that las
 ted for more than a year. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 2001-05-27-dos-palmas-kidnappings\n• 2014 – The football club Kerala B
 lasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada were formed. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-05-27-kerala-blasters-fc\n\n
 Died 366: Procopius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_%28usurper%29\
 nBorn 1860: Margrethe Munthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrethe_Munth
 e\nBorn 1971: Sophie Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Walker\nB
 orn 2002: Jérémy Doku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my_Dok
 u\n\nPictured: Massacre of the Jews of Metz\, by the 19th-century painter 
 [[Auguste Migette]].
SUMMARY:📅 May 27 · Rhineland massacres\, 1896 St. Louis–East St. Loui
 s tornado\, Benton fireworks…
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DESCRIPTION:May 28 in history:\n• 621 – Tang forces led by Li Shimin de
 feated and captured Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao in the civil war tha
 t followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-0621-05-28-battle-of-hulao\n• 1608 – Italian compose
 r Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna\, now one of his l
 ost works\, at a royal wedding in Mantua. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1608-05-28-l-arianna\n• 1901 – Mozaffar ad-Din\, Shah 
 of Persia\, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to
  businessman William Knox D'Arcy (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1901-05-28-d-arcy-concession\n• 1940 – Second World
  War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany\, ending the Battle of Belgium. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-05-28-german-invasion
 -of-belgium-1940\n• 2016 – Harambe was shot and killed after grabbing 
 a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical 
 Garden\, drawing widespread criticism and inspiring internet memes. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2016-05-28-harambe\n\nDied 926: 
 Kong Qian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong_Qian\nBorn 1676: Jacopo Ricca
 ti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Riccati\nBorn 1976: Liam O'Brien h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%27Brien\nBorn 2000: Risi Pouri-Lane ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risi_Pouri-Lane\n\nPictured: William Knox D'Ar
 cy.
SUMMARY:📅 May 28 · Battle of Hulao\, L'Arianna\, D'Arcy Concession\, Ge
 rman invasion of Belgium…
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DESCRIPTION:May 29 in history:\n• 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibel
 lines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empi
 re at the Battle of Legnano in present-day Italy. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1176-05-29-battle-of-legnano\n• 1851 – Sojourn
 er Truth (pictured) delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Woman's
  Rights Convention in Akron. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1851-05-29-sojourner-truth\n• 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillar
 y and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount 
 Everest. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1953-05-29-edmund
 -hillary\n• 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria'
 s first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dict
 atorship. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1999-05-29-oluse
 gun-obasanjo\n\nBorn 1926: Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Halaevalu_Mata%CA%BBaho_%CA%BBAhome%CA%BBe\nBorn 1926: Abdou
 laye Wade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdoulaye_Wade\nDied 1991: Margare
 t Barr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Barr_%28choreographer%29\nBo
 rn 2006: Gukesh Dommaraju https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukesh_Dommaraju\n
 \nPictured: Sojourner Truth.
SUMMARY:📅 May 29 · Battle of Legnano\, Sojourner Truth\, Edmund Hillary
 \, Olusegun Obasanjo
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DESCRIPTION:May 30 in history:\n• 1536 – Jane Seymour\, a former lady-i
 n-waiting\, married King Henry VIII\, becoming the queen consort of Englan
 d. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1536-05-30-jane-seymour
 \n• 1806 – In one of several violent incidents involving future U.S. p
 resident Andrew Jackson\, Charles Dickinson was killed in a duel\; Jackson
  was wounded and carried the bullet for the rest of his life. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1806-05-30-list-of-violent-incidents-i
 nvolving-andr\n• 1866 – Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Br
 ide (cover of score pictured) premiered in Prague. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1866-05-30-the-bartered-bride\n• 1959 – The A
 uckland Harbour Bridge officially opened\, connecting the suburbs of Saint
  Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland\, New Zealand\, across Waitematā Har
 bour. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-05-30-auckland-
 harbour-bridge\n• 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappeared
  on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-2005-05-30-disappearance-of-natalee-holloway\n\nBorn 168
 6: Antonina Houbraken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonina_Houbraken\nDi
 ed 1778: Voltaire /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-volta
 ire-q9068\nBorn 1951: Fernando Lugo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando
 _Lugo\nBorn 1999: Eddie Nketiah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Nketia
 h\n\nPictured: Cover of the score of ''The Bartered Bride''.
SUMMARY:📅 May 30 · Jane Seymour\, List of violent incidents involving A
 ndrew Jackson\, The Bartered…
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DESCRIPTION:May 31 in history:\n• 455 – Petronius Maximus\, the ruler o
 f the Western Roman Empire\, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome 
 before Vandal forces arrived and sacked the city. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-0455-05-31-petronius-maximus\n• 1775 – America
 n Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County\, North Caroli
 na\, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves\, which annulled and vacated all law
 s originating from the authority of the king or the Parliament of Great Br
 itain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1775-05-31-mecklenb
 urg-resolves\n• 1981 – An organized mob of police and government-spons
 ored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led to
  the burning of the Jaffna Public Library (renovated building pictured) in
  Sri Lanka\, destroying more than 97\,000 items in one of the most violent
  20th-century examples of ethnic biblioclasm. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1981-05-31-sinhalese-people\n\nDied 1326: Maurice de B
 erkeley\, 2nd Baron Berkeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_de_Berk
 eley%2C_2nd_Baron_Berkeley\nBorn 1994: Jang Sel-gi https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Jang_Sel-gi\nDied 2006: Raymond Davis Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Raymond_Davis_Jr.\nDied 2011: Derek Hodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Derek_Hodge\n\nPictured: Jaffna Public Library.
SUMMARY:📅 May 31 · Petronius Maximus\, Mecklenburg Resolves\, burning o
 f the Jaffna Public Library
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DESCRIPTION:June 1 in history:\n• 1676 – Scanian War: The Swedish warsh
 ip Kronan\, one of the largest ships in the world at the time\, sank at th
 e Battle of Öland (depicted) with the loss of around 800 men. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1676-06-01-kronan-ship\n• 1796 – 
 Tennessee was admitted as the 16th state of the United States. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1796-06-01-tennessee\n• 1943 – Ei
 ght German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation F
 light 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France\, killi
 ng actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-06-01-boac-flight-777\n• 2001 
 – A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightcl
 ub in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, killing 21 people\, most of whom were teenage gi
 rls. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-06-01-dolphinari
 um-discotheque-bombing\n• 2015 – The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xi
 ng capsized in the Yangtze\, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peac
 etime maritime disaster. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 015-06-01-sinking-of-dongfang-zhi-xing\n\nDied 1310: Marguerite Porete htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Porete\nDied 1826: J. F. Oberlin htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._Oberlin\nBorn 1926: Marilyn Monroe https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe\nBorn 1999: Technoblade https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoblade\n\nPictured: Battle of Öland.
SUMMARY:📅 June 1 · Kronan (ship)\, Tennessee\, BOAC Flight 777\, Dolphi
 narium discotheque bombing\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 2 in history:\n• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Span
 ish fleet recaptured the British-held Diamond Rock\, an uninhabited island
  at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France\, Martinique. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1805-06-02-battle-of-diamond-roc
 k\n• 1886 – The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom (weddin
 g depicted) took place in the White House\, in the only time that a U.S. p
 resident has married in the building. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1886-06-02-wedding-of-grover-cleveland-and-frances\n• 1962 
 – One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup a
 s Chile defeated Italy in a group match. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1962-06-02-battle-of-santiago-1962-fifa-world-cup\n• 2008
  – Artist Tim Buckley published "Loss" as part of his webcomic Ctrl+Alt+
 Del. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-06-02-loss-ctrl-
 alt-del\n\nDied 891: Al-Muwaffaq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muwaffaq
 \nBorn 1868: Adelaide Casely-Hayford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid
 e_Casely-Hayford\nDied 1921: Phebe A. Hanaford https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Phebe_A._Hanaford\nBorn 1988: Sergio Agüero https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Sergio_Ag%C3%BCero\n\nPictured: Sketch of the wedding by [[Thure de Th
 ulstrup]].
SUMMARY:📅 June 2 · Battle of Diamond Rock\, Wedding of Grover Cleveland
  and Frances Folsom\, Battle…
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DESCRIPTION:June 3 in history:\n• 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod establi
 shed the border between Norway and the Novgorod Republic in Finnmark. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1326-06-03-treaty-of-novgorod-
 1326\n• 1892 – Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured)\, one of England's mo
 st successful football clubs\, was founded. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1892-06-03-liverpool-f-c\n• 1941 – World War II: In 
 reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Cr
 ete\, the German Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos\, Greece\, an
 d killed about 180 of its inhabitants. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1941-06-03-kandanos-massacre\n• 1968 – American radical f
 eminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two
  others at Warhol's New York City studio\, the Factory. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-06-03-valerie-solanas\n\nDied 800: Stau
 rakios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurakios_%28eunuch%29\nBorn 1821: M
 artha Jane Knowlton Coray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jane_Knowlt
 on_Coray\nBorn 1926: Flora MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_M
 acDonald_%28politician%29\nDied 2016: Muhammad Ali https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Muhammad_Ali\n\nPictured: [[Anfield]]\, Liverpool F.C.'s stadium.
SUMMARY:📅 June 3 · Treaty of Novgorod (1326)\, Liverpool F.C.\, Kandano
 s massacre\, Valerie Solanas
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DESCRIPTION:June 4 in history:\n• 1411 – King Charles VI of France gran
 ted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening of 
 Roquefort cheese (example pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1411-06-04-roquefort\n• 1561 – The spire of Old St Paul's C
 athedral in London was destroyed by fire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1561-06-04-old-st-paul-s-cathedral\n• 1913 – Emily Dav
 ison\, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom\, was fatall
 y injured after being trampled by a horse owned by King George V at the Ep
 som Derby. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1913-06-04-emil
 y-davison\n• 1989 – The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tianan
 men Square protests in Beijing\, leaving hundreds of people dead and wound
 ed. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-06-04-1989-tianan
 men-square-protests-and-massa\n• 2004 – In Granby\, Colorado\, U.S.\, 
 Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer over a zoning 
 dispute\, destroying several buildings before dying by suicide. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2004-06-04-marvin-heemeyer\n\nDied 1
 039: Conrad II\, Holy Roman Emperor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_I
 I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor\nBorn 1926: Robert Earl Hughes https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Robert_Earl_Hughes\nBorn 1941: Linda Martell https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell\nBorn 2021: Princess Lilibet of Sussex https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Lilibet_of_Sussex\n\nPictured: Roquefort che
 ese.
SUMMARY:📅 June 4 · Roquefort\, Old St Paul's Cathedral\, Emily Davison\
 , 1989 Tiananmen Square…
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DESCRIPTION:June 5 in history:\n• 663 – The Daming Palace in Chang'an b
 ecame the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty d
 uring the reign of Emperor Gaozong. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-0663-06-05-daming-palace\n• 1610 – The masque Tethys' Festiv
 al was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture o
 f Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1610-06-05-tethys-festival\n• 1963 – British politician Jo
 hn Profumo admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his inv
 olvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler\, and resigned from govern
 ment. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-06-05-profumo-a
 ffair\n• 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho\, U.S.\, collapsed (fai
 lure pictured) as its reservoir was being filled for the first time\, resu
 lting in the deaths of eleven people and 13\,000 cattle\, and causing up t
 o $2 billion in damage. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 76-06-05-teton-dam\n• 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison\, the costliest At
 lantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane\, made landfall in Texa
 s\, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2001-06-05-tropical-storm-allison\n\nBorn 1646: El
 ena Cornaro Piscopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Cornaro_Piscopia\
 nBorn 1883: Mary Helen Young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Helen_Youn
 g\nBorn 1926: Paul Soros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soros\nDied 20
 21: TB Joshua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TB_Joshua\n\nPictured: Teton D
 am failure.
SUMMARY:📅 June 5 · Daming Palace\, Tethys' Festival\, Profumo affair\, 
 Teton Dam\, Tropical Storm…
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DESCRIPTION:June 6 in history:\n• 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: 
 Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara\, for
 cing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1513-06-06-battle-of-novara-1513\n• 1894 
 – Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to prot
 ect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1894-06-06-davis-hanson-wait
 e\n• 1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortifie
 d North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-06-06-battle-of-long-khanh\n• 1976
  – A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport\, Malaysia\,
  killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Peter Joinud Mojuntin\, 
 along with nine others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 76-06-06-1976-sabah-air-gaf-nomad-crash\n• 2021 – A man rammed a picku
 p truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario\, Canada\, k
 illing four members of the same family. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-2021-06-06-2021-london-ontario-truck-attack\n\nDied 1252: Ro
 bert Passelewe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Passelewe\nDied 1891: 
 John A. Macdonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald\nBorn 19
 88: Maria Alyokhina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Alyokhina\nBorn 20
 01: Rayan Aït-Nouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayan_A%C3%AFt-Nouri\n\
 nPictured: Fuad Stephens.
SUMMARY:📅 June 6 · Battle of Novara (1513)\, Cripple Creek miners' stri
 ke of 1894\, Battle of Long…
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DESCRIPTION:June 7 in history:\n• 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II mar
 ried Aelia Eudocia\, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews fro
 m persecution. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0421-06-07-
 aelia-eudocia\n• 1832 – The Reform Act\, which is widely credited with
  launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom\, received royal assent.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1832-06-07-reform-act-183
 2\n• 1900 – American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloo
 n in Kiowa\, Kansas\, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with 
 rocks. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1900-06-07-carrie-n
 ation\n• 1929 – The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City 
 into existence\, thus ending the "Roman question". /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1929-06-07-lateran-treaty\n• 1989 – Surinam A
 irways Flight 764 (pictured) crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel 
 International Airport\, in Zanderij\, killing 178 people\, including membe
 rs of the football team known as the Colourful 11. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1989-06-07-surinam-airways-flight-764\n\nDied 182
 6: Joseph von Fraunhofer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_von_Fraunhof
 er\nBorn 1831: Amelia Edwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Edwards
 \nBorn 1991: Emily Ratajkowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Ratajko
 wski\nDied 2025: Uriah Rennie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie\n
 \nPictured: Surinam Airways Flight&nbsp\;764.
SUMMARY:📅 June 7 · Aelia Eudocia\, Reform Act 1832\, Carrie Nation\, La
 teran Treaty\, Surinam Airways…
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DESCRIPTION:June 8 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Br
 itish forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivière
 s\, the last battle of the American invasion of Quebec. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-06-08-battle-of-trois-rivieres\n• 178
 3 – Laki\, a volcanic fissure in Iceland\, began an eight-month eruption
 \, triggering a major famine and causing widespread fluoride poisoning. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1783-06-08-laki\n• 1982 
 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ship
 s (damaged ship pictured) while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the F
 alkland Islands\, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1982-06-08-bluff-cove-air-a
 ttacks\n• 2007 – A major storm caused the bulk carrier Pasha Bulker to
  run aground in New South Wales\, Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2007-06-08-pasha-bulker\n• 2008 – Seven people were
  killed and 10 others were injured in a vehicle and knife attack in Tokyo\
 , Japan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-06-08-akihab
 ara-massacre\n\nDied 632: Muhammad /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/f
 amous-lives-muhammad-q9458\nBorn 1921: Suharto https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Suharto\nDied 1966: Leo Walmsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Walm
 sley\nBorn 1983: Kim Clijsters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Clijsters
 \n\nPictured: [[RFA Sir Tristram.
SUMMARY:📅 June 8 · Battle of Trois-Rivières\, Laki\, Bluff Cove air at
 tacks\, Pasha Bulker\, 2008…
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DESCRIPTION:June 9 in history:\n• 1846 – Hamilton\, Ontario (skyline pi
 ctured)\, was granted city status by the Parliament of the Province of Can
 ada. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1846-06-09-hamilton-o
 ntario\n• 1856 – The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Io
 wa City for Salt Lake City\, Utah. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1856-06-09-mormon-handcart-pioneers\n• 1920 – The courtesan W
 ang Lianying was murdered in Shanghai\, leading to months of media and lit
 erary coverage. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-06-09
 -murder-of-wang-lianying\n• 1965 – Fighting began between the Viet Con
 g and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài\,
  one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1965-06-09-battle-of-d-ng-xoai\n• 2010 – A child
  suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan\, Afghanistan\, killing at l
 east 40 people and injuring at least 70 others. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-2010-06-09-2010-nadahan-bombing\n\nDied 1701: Philip
 pe I\, Duke of Orléans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_I%2C_Duke_o
 f_Orl%C3%A9ans\nDied 1913: Sarah Roberts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar
 ah_Roberts_%28subject_of_vampire_legend%29\nBorn 1928: Jackie Mason https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Mason\nDied 2025: Pik-Sen Lim https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Pik-Sen_Lim\n\nPictured: Skyline of Hamilton\, Ontario.
SUMMARY:📅 June 9 · Hamilton\, Ontario\, Mormon handcart pioneers\, Murd
 er of Wang Lianying\, Battle…
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DESCRIPTION:June 10 in history:\n• 731 – Tatwine was consecrated as Arc
 hbishop of Canterbury. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-073
 1-06-10-tatwine\n• 1329 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed 
 Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1329-06-10-battle-of-pelek
 anon\n• 1886 – Mount Tarawera\, a volcano in New Zealand's North Islan
 d\, erupted (depicted)\, killing around 120 people and creating the Waiman
 gu Volcanic Rift Valley. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 886-06-10-1886-eruption-of-mount-tarawera\n• 1916 – Hussein\, King of 
 Hejaz\, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of c
 reating a single unified and independent Arab state. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1916-06-10-arab-revolt\n• 1991 – Eleven-yea
 r-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe\, California\; she r
 emained a captive until 2009. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1991-06-10-kidnapping-of-jaycee-dugard\n\nDied 903: Cheng Rui https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Rui\nBorn 1851: Cora Agnes Benneson https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Agnes_Benneson\nBorn 1886: Sessue Hayakawa https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa\nBorn 1923: Robert Maxwell https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell\n\nPictured: Mount Tarawera eruption
 .
SUMMARY:📅 June 10 · Tatwine\, Battle of Pelekanon\, 1886 eruption of Mo
 unt Tarawera\, Arab Revolt\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 11 in history:\n• 806 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abb
 asid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzanti
 ne-controlled Asia Minor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 0806-06-11-abbasid-invasion-of-asia-minor-806\n• 1775 – The Battle of 
 Machias\, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War\, c
 ommenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1775-06-11-battle-of-machia
 s\n• 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago\, Republican P
 arty leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) t
 o select their presidential candidate\, leading to the phrase "smoke-fille
 d room". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-06-11-the-bl
 ackstone-hotel\n• 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years'
  imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against
  the British supermarket chain Tesco. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2001-06-11-tesco-bomb-campaign\n• 2008 – Canadian prime mi
 nister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments
 ' policies of forced assimilation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-2008-06-11-canadian-indian-residential-school-syste\n\nBorn 1696:
  James Francis Edward Keith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Ed
 ward_Keith\nBorn 1934: Claudia Lauper Bushman https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Claudia_Lauper_Bushman\nBorn 2001: Ben Waine https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Ben_Waine\nDied 2021: Taha Karaan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taha_Ka
 raan\n\nPictured: The Blackstone Hotel.
SUMMARY:📅 June 11 · Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (806)\, Battle of Ma
 chias\, The Blackstone Hotel\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 12 in history:\n• 1240 – The Disputation of Paris\, in
  which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusation
 s of blasphemy\, began in the court of King Louis IX. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1240-06-12-disputation-of-paris\n• 1776 – 
 The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights\, an influen
 tial document that proclaimed the inherent rights of men. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-06-12-virginia-declaration-of-rights\
 n• 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark\, the first film in the Indiana Jone
 s franchise\, was released. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1981-06-12-raiders-of-the-lost-ark\n• 1999 – In the aftermath of the
  bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War\, the NATO-led Kosovo Force ente
 red the territory with a mandate of establishing a secure environment. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1999-06-12-kosovo-force\n• 
 2025 – Air India Flight 171 (wreckage pictured) crashed shortly after ta
 ke-off in Ahmedabad\, India\, killing 260 people. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2025-06-12-air-india-flight-171\n\nDied 1435: John
  Fitzalan\, 7th Earl of Arundel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fitzala
 n%2C_7th_Earl_of_Arundel\nBorn 1877: Thomas C. Hart https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Thomas_C._Hart\nDied 1981: Milorad Petrović https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Milorad_Petrovi%C4%87\nBorn 1983: Christine Sinclair https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Sinclair\n\nPictured: Wreckage of Air India Fl
 ight&nbsp\;171.
SUMMARY:📅 June 12 · Disputation of Paris\, Virginia Declaration of Righ
 ts\, Raiders of the Lost Ark\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 13 in history:\n• 1850 – The American League of Colore
 d Laborers\, one of the first labor unions for African Americans\, was est
 ablished in New York City. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1850-06-13-american-league-of-colored-laborers\n• 1916 – World War I:
  The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadi
 an assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916-06-13-battle-of-mont-sorrel\n
 • 1971 – The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pent
 agon Papers\, a 7\,000-page classified Department of Defense history of th
 e United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-06-13-pentagon-papers\n
 • 1981 – English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen El
 izabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-06-13-marcus-sarjeant
 \n• 2011 – A 6.0 Mw earthquake (aftermath pictured) caused up to NZ$6 
 billion of additional damage to Christchurch\, New Zealand\, which was sti
 ll recovering from an earthquake four months earlier. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2011-06-13-june-2011-christchurch-earthquake\n
 \nDied 976: Mansur I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_I\nDied 1550: Ve
 ronica Gambara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Gambara\nDied 1846: 
 Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_
 Beno%C3%AEt_Eyri%C3%A8s\nBorn 1986: Thabo Bester https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Thabo_Bester\n\nPictured: Aftermath of the June 2011 Christchurch ear
 thquake.
SUMMARY:📅 June 13 · American League of Colored Laborers\, Battle of Mon
 t Sorrel\, Pentagon Papers\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 14 in history:\n• 1646 – Franco-Spanish War: French an
 d Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello\, with sailin
 g vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to l
 ight winds. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1646-06-14-bat
 tle-of-orbetello\n• 1846 – Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against 
 Mexico\, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade 
 flag with a bear and a star. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1846-06-14-california-republic\n• 1940 – Second World War: Four day
 s after the French government fled Paris\, German forces occupied the Fren
 ch capital\, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-06-14-fall-rot\n• 1966 – The
  Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books (tit
 le page pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1966-06
 -14-index-librorum-prohibitorum\n• 1996 – After an 81-day standoff spa
 rked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jord
 an\, Montana\, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to 
 the FBI. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-06-14-montan
 a-freemen\n\nBorn 1816: Priscilla Cooper Tyler https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Priscilla_Cooper_Tyler\nDied 1926: Mary Cassatt https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Mary_Cassatt\nBorn 1976: Alan Carr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al
 an_Carr\nBorn 1994: Taeil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeil_%28singer%29
 \n\nPictured: Title page of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum''.
SUMMARY:📅 June 14 · Battle of Orbetello\, California Republic\, Fall Ro
 t\, Index Librorum…
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DESCRIPTION:June 15 in history:\n• 1520 – Leo X issued the papal bull E
 xsurge Domine\, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five
  Theses and subsequent writings\, and threatening him with excommunication
  unless he recanted. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1520-
 06-15-exsurge-domine\n• 1896 – A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subseq
 uent tsunami struck Japan\, killing at least 22\,000 people and destroying
  about 9\,000 homes. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1896-
 06-15-1896-sanriku-earthquake\n• 1920 – Three African-American circus 
 workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth\, Minnesota\, a crime that shocked
  the country for having taken place in the Northern United States. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-06-15-duluth-lynchings\n• 
 1991 – An eruption of Mount Pinatubo (pictured) in the Philippines depos
 ited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere\, enough to b
 riefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F). /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-06-15-mount-pinatubo\n• 2006 –
  US president George W. Bush designated 140\,000 square miles (360\,000 km
 2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Mar
 ine National Monument\, now one of the world's largest protected areas. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-06-15-papahanaumokuakea
 -marine-national-monume\n\nDied 960: Eadburh of Winchester https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Eadburh_of_Winchester\nDied 1876: Mehmed Rashid Pasha https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_Rashid_Pasha\nBorn 1917: John B. Fenn http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Fenn\nBorn 1978: Mohamed Muizzu https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Muizzu\n\nPictured: 1991 eruption of Mount P
 inatubo.
SUMMARY:📅 June 15 · Exsurge Domine\, 1896 Sanriku earthquake\, Duluth l
 ynchings\, Mount Pinatubo\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 16 in history:\n• 1755 – After a two-week siege\, the 
 French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick\, Canada
 \, surrendered to British forces\, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's W
 ar. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1755-06-16-battle-of-f
 ort-beausejour\n• 1883 – In the Victoria Hall disaster\, 183 children 
 were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after
  a variety show in Sunderland\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1883-06-16-victoria-hall-disaster\n• 1960 – Psycho\, a 
 psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a nove
 l of the same name by Robert Bloch\, premiered. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1960-06-16-psycho-1960-film\n• 1963 – Aboard Vos
 tok 6\, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first 
 woman in space. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-06-16
 -valentina-tereshkova\n• 2016 – Jo Cox\, a British Member of Parliamen
 t\, was murdered in her constituency. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2016-06-16-murder-of-jo-cox\n\nDied 1361: Johannes Tauler http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Tauler\nBorn 1516: Yang Jisheng https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Jisheng_%28Ming_dynasty%29\nBorn 1968: Mariana
  Mazzucato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Mazzucato\nBorn 1971: Tup
 ac Shakur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur\n\nPictured: Valentin
 a Tereshkova.
SUMMARY:📅 June 16 · Battle of Fort Beauséjour\, Victoria Hall disaster
 \, Psycho (1960 film)\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 17 in history:\n• 653 – Pope Martin I (pictured) was a
 rrested in the Lateran Palace\, Rome\, and taken to Constantinople. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0653-06-17-pope-martin-i\n• 15
 79 – Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California
 \, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1579-06-17-new-albion\n• 1919 – Hundreds of
  Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom\, England\, leading to the death of a B
 ritish police officer. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-191
 9-06-17-epsom-riot\n• 1972 – Five men were arrested for attempted burg
 lary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee\, igniting the Wa
 tergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of US president Ric
 hard Nixon more than two years later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1972-06-17-watergate-scandal\n\nPictured: border=yes.
SUMMARY:📅 June 17 · Pope Martin I\, New Albion\, Epsom riot\, Watergate
  scandal
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DESCRIPTION:June 18 in history:\n• 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese
  governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor\, establishing the T
 ang dynasty. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0618-06-18-ta
 ng-dynasty\n• 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow na
 turalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection\, which encouraged him
  to publish his own theory of evolution. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1858-06-18-alfred-russel-wallace\n• 1940 – World War II
 : Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech\, often considered t
 o be the origin of the French Resistance. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1940-06-18-appeal-of-18-june\n• 1953 – A Douglas C-124
  Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa\, Japan
 \, killing all 129 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1953-06-18-tachikawa-air-disaster\n• 2012 – Salman bin Abdul
 aziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2012-06-18-salman-of-saudi-arabia\n\nBo
 rn 1769: Lord Castlereagh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart%2C_
 Viscount_Castlereagh\nBorn 1877: James Montgomery Flagg https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/James_Montgomery_Flagg\nDied 1964: Giorgio Morandi https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Morandi\nBorn 1986: Richard Madden https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Madden\n\nPictured: Li Yuan.
SUMMARY:📅 June 18 · Tang dynasty\, Alfred Russel Wallace\, Appeal of 18
  June\, Tachikawa air…
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DESCRIPTION:June 19 in history:\n• 1718 – An earthquake on the Tibetan 
 Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73\,000 people. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1718-06-19-1718-tongwei-gansu-earthquake\n•
  1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history usin
 g modern rules was played in Hoboken\, New Jersey\, with the "New York Nin
 e" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1846-06-19-baseball\n• 1926 – King Roger\, an o
 pera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski (pictured)\, was premie
 red at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1926-06-19-king-roger-opera\n• 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ\, th
 e commander of the South Vietnam Air Force\, was appointed prime minister 
 at the head of a military regime. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1965-06-19-nguy-n-cao-k\n• 2010 – The royal wedding of Victori
 a\, Crown Princess of Sweden\, and Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm
  Cathedral. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-06-19-wed
 ding-of-victoria-crown-princess-of-sw\n\nBorn 1783: Friedrich Sertürner h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Sert%C3%BCrner\nBorn 1861: Douglas 
 Haig\, 1st Earl Haig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Haig%2C_1st_Ear
 l_Haig\nBorn 1926: Erna Schneider Hoover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern
 a_Schneider_Hoover\nDied 2013: James Gandolfini https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/James_Gandolfini\n\nPictured: Szymanowski in 1922.
SUMMARY:📅 June 19 · 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake\, baseball\, King R
 oger (opera)\, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 20 in history:\n• 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acc
 eded to the British throne\, beginning a 63-year reign. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1837-06-20-queen-victoria\n• 1921 – Brit
 ish Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Repu
 blican Army near Moydrum\, Ireland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1921-06-20-thomas-stanton-lambert\n• 1959 – The extratropica
 l remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Ca
 nada\, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-06-20-1959-escuminac-disaster
 \n• 1979 – Bill Stewart\, an American journalist\, was executed by Nic
 araguan Guardia forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 79-06-20-bill-stewart-journalist\n• 1982 – The International Conferenc
 e on the Holocaust and Genocide\, the first major conference in genocide s
 tudies\, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion
  of presentations on the Armenian genocide. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1982-06-20-international-conference-on-the-holocaus\n\nB
 orn 1389: John of Lancaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Lancaste
 r%2C_Duke_of_Bedford\nBorn 1924: Fritz Koenig https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Fritz_Koenig\nBorn 1929: Edith Windsor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edi
 th_Windsor\nBorn 1941: Ulf Merbold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Merbo
 ld\n\nPictured: Queen Victoria.
SUMMARY:📅 June 20 · Queen Victoria\, Thomas Stanton Lambert\, 1959 Escu
 minac disaster\, Bill Stewart…
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DESCRIPTION:June 21 in history:\n• 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution\
 , Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican go
 vernment in present-day Romania. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1848-06-21-wallachian-revolution-of-1848\n• 1898 – The United S
 tates captured Guam from Spain in a bloodless event during the Spanish–A
 merican War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1898-06-21-ca
 pture-of-guam\n• 1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured)\, the w
 orld's first stored-program computer\, ran its first program. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1948-06-21-manchester-baby\n\nBorn 196
 1: Joko Widodo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko_Widodo\nBorn 1985: Lana 
 Del Rey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Del_Rey\nDied 2001: Soad Hosny 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soad_Hosny\nDied 2013: Wendy Saddington http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Saddington\n\nPictured: Replica of the Man
 chester Baby.
SUMMARY:📅 June 21 · Wallachian Revolution of 1848\, Capture of Guam\, M
 anchester Baby
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DESCRIPTION:June 22 in history:\n• 1593 – Habsburg troops defeated a la
 rger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia\, trig
 gering the Long Turkish War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1593-06-22-battle-of-sisak\n• 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary (
 both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-06-22-george-v\n• 1941 – World 
 War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union\, the Lith
 uanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Sovie
 t occupation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-06-22-o
 peration-barbarossa\n• 1979 – Former British Liberal Party leader Jere
 my Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott\, who had acc
 used Thorpe of having a relationship with him. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1979-06-22-thorpe-affair\n• 2002 – A magnitude-6.
 5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran\, killing at least 230 people and in
 juring 1\,300 others\; the official response\, perceived to be slow\, late
 r caused widespread public anger. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-2002-06-22-2002-bou-in-zahra-earthquake\n\nDied 1874: Howard Staun
 ton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Staunton\nDied 1937: Jean-Joseph 
 Rabearivelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Rabearivelo\nBorn 19
 49: Elizabeth Warren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren\nBorn 
 1949: Meryl Streep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep\n\nPictured:
  George&nbsp\;V and Mary after their coronation.
SUMMARY:📅 June 22 · Battle of Sisak\, George V\, Operation Barbarossa\,
  Thorpe affair\, 2002…
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DESCRIPTION:June 23 in history:\n• 1726 – On the First Sunday after Tri
 nity\, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Br
 ot\, BWV 39 (page pictured)\, one of a few new cantatas written that year.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1726-06-23-brich-dem-hung
 rigen-dein-brot-bwv-39\n• 1865 – Stand Watie became the last Confedera
 te general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1865-06-23-stand-watie\n• 1887 
 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act\, creatin
 g Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1887-06-23-banff-national-par
 k\n• 1926 – The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitu
 de Test\, a major standardized test for university and college admissions 
 in the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1926
 -06-23-sat\n• 1991 – The first instalment of the video-game series Son
 ic the Hedgehog was released in North America. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1991-06-23-sonic-the-hedgehog\n\nDied 1324: Aymer de 
 Valence\, 2nd Earl of Pembroke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymer_de_Vale
 nce%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke\nBorn 1916: Len Hutton https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Len_Hutton\nBorn 1934: Bill Torrey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi
 ll_Torrey\nBorn 1964: Joss Whedon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedo
 n\n\nPictured: [[Autograph (manuscript).
SUMMARY:📅 June 23 · Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot\, BWV 39\, Stand Wati
 e\, Banff National Park\, SAT\,…
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DESCRIPTION:June 24 in history:\n• 474 – Western Roman emperor Glyceriu
 s\, who was not recognized by his Eastern counterpart Leo I\, was forced t
 o abdicate. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0474-06-24-gly
 cerius\n• 1559 – The Book of Common Prayer\, a major component of the 
 Elizabethan religious settlement\, was introduced as the liturgy of the Ch
 urch of England through the Act of Uniformity 1558. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1559-06-24-book-of-common-prayer-1559\n• 1932 
 – A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup
  in Siam\, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri dynasty. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1932-06-24-siamese-revolution-of-1932\n
 • 1989 – Following the Tiananmen Square massacre\, the 13th Central Co
 mmittee of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Jiang Zemin as general se
 cretary in place of Zhao Ziyang. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1989-06-24-jiang-zemin\n• 2021 – A portion of a 12-story condom
 inium building collapsed (aftermath pictured) in Surfside\, Florida\, Unit
 ed States\, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2021-06-24-surfside-condominium-collapse\n\nDi
 ed 1604: Edward de Vere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere%2C_17
 th_Earl_of_Oxford\nDied 1899: Kapiʻolani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka
 pi%CA%BBolani\nBorn 1983: Jasmin Moghbeli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja
 smin_Moghbeli\nBorn 1987: Lionel Messi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lione
 l_Messi\n\nPictured: Aftermath of the Surfside condominium collapse.
SUMMARY:📅 June 24 · Glycerius\, Book of Common Prayer (1559)\, Siamese 
 revolution of 1932\, Jiang…
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DESCRIPTION:June 25 in history:\n• 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The larges
 t battle ever fought on Jamaica\, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo\, bega
 n. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1658-06-25-battle-of-ri
 o-nuevo\n• 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial\, an evacuation o
 f nearly 200\,000 Allied soldiers from French ports\, was completed. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-06-25-operation-aerial\n
 • 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 cond
 emning the North Korean invasion of South Korea. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1950-06-25-united-nations-security-council-resoluti
 \n• 2013 – In response to a Freedom of Information Act request\, the C
 IA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 (diagram pictured)\, a secretive 
 U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO\, and other
 \, conspiracy theories. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-20
 13-06-25-area-51\n• 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces
  captured the city of Sievierodonetsk\, Ukraine\, after six weeks of fight
 ing. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2022-06-25-battle-of-
 sievierodonetsk-2022\n\nBorn 1936: B. J. Habibie https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/B._J._Habibie\nBorn 1954: Sonia Sotomayor https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Sonia_Sotomayor\nDied 2018: David Goldblatt https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/David_Goldblatt\n\nPictured: CIA diagram of Area&nbsp\;51.
SUMMARY:📅 June 25 · Battle of Rio Nuevo\, Operation Aerial\, United Nat
 ions Security Council…
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DESCRIPTION:June 26 in history:\n• 1243 – Mongol conquest of Anatolia: 
 Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuk Turks\, leading to the
  decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1243-06-26-battle-of-kose-dag\n• 1848 – French 
 authorities suppressed the June Days uprising (pictured)\, in which worker
 s rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1848-06-26-june-days-uprising\n• 19
 18 – World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River
  in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of Germ
 an troops. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1918-06-26-batt
 le-of-belleau-wood\n• 1997 – J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Phil
 osopher's Stone\, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series\
 , was released. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1997-06-26
 -harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone\n• 2010 – A G20 summit\, the
  largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history\, began
  in downtown Toronto. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010
 -06-26-2010-g20-toronto-summit\n\nBorn 1644: Henrietta of England https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_of_England\nBorn 1852: Daoud Corm https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daoud_Corm\nDied 1956: Richie Powell https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Richie_Powell\nBorn 1976: Pommie Mbangwa https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Pommie_Mbangwa\n\nPictured: June Days uprising.
SUMMARY:📅 June 26 · Battle of Köse Dağ\, June Days uprising\, Battle 
 of Belleau Wood\, Harry Potter…
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DESCRIPTION:June 27 in history:\n• 678 – Pope Agatho\, later venerated 
 as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches\, began his 
 pontificate. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0678-06-27-po
 pe-agatho\n• 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time t
 hat a British monarch led troops in battle\, Allied forces commanded by Ge
 orge II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen\, Bavaria. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1743-06-27-battle-of-dettingen\n
 • 1869 – The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was comp
 leted with an imperial victory in the Boshin War. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1869-06-27-boshin-war\n• 1957 – Hurricane Audr
 ey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border\, killing over 400 peop
 le\, mainly in and around Cameron\, Louisiana\, U.S. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1957-06-27-hurricane-audrey\n• 2007 – As a 
 result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favel
 as of Rio de Janeiro\, a large military and civil police operation killed 
 19 people and injured several others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-2007-06-27-complexo-do-alemao-massacre\n\nDied 1829: James Smi
 thson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Smithson\nBorn 1976: Nekima Levy
  Armstrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekima_Levy_Armstrong\nBorn 1986:
  Sam Claflin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Claflin\nDied 2017: Michael
  Nyqvist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nyqvist\n\nPictured: George
 &nbsp\;II at Dettingen.
SUMMARY:📅 June 27 · Pope Agatho\, Battle of Dettingen\, Boshin War\, Hu
 rricane Audrey\, Complexo do…
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DESCRIPTION:June 28 in history:\n• 1841 – Giselle (title role pictured)
 \, a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam\, was first performed at t
 he Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1841-06-28-giselle\n• 1904 – In the wors
 t maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship\, SS Norge ran agroun
 d on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic\, resulting in more th
 an 635 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1904-06-28-
 ss-norge\n• 1956 – Polish workers demanding better working conditions 
 began massive protests in Poznań\, but were later violently repressed by 
 the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1956-06-28-1956-poznan-protests\n• 1963 
 – Profumo affair: During the trial of Stephen Ward\, Mandy Rice-Davies u
 ttered the phrase "Well he would\, wouldn't he?" /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1963-06-28-stephen-ward\n• 2016 – Gunmen attack
 ed Istanbul's Atatürk Airport\, killing 45 people and injuring more than 
 230 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2016-06-28-201
 6-ataturk-airport-attack\n\nDied 1836: James Madison https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/James_Madison\nBorn 1852: Charles Cruft https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Charles_Cruft_%28showman%29\nBorn 1940: Muhammad Yunus https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus\nBorn 1987: Karina Gould https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Karina_Gould\n\nPictured: [[Carlotta Grisi]] as Giselle in 184
 1.
SUMMARY:📅 June 28 · Giselle\, SS Norge\, 1956 Poznań protests\, Well h
 e would\, wouldn't he?\, 2016…
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DESCRIPTION:June 29 in history:\n• 1776 – The first privateer battle of
  the American Revolutionary War\, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet\, was fou
 ght near Cape May\, New Jersey (map of location\, pictured). /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-06-29-battle-of-turtle-gut-inlet\n
 • 1832 – Black Hawk War: Three men working in a cornfield were attacke
 d by Sauk Native Americans\, resulting in two deaths. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1832-06-29-sinsinawa-mound-raid\n• 1950 – 
 The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the
  greatest upsets in the competition's history. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1950-06-29-united-states-v-england-1950-fifa-world\n
 • 1971 – The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompressio
 n during preparations for reentry\, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Vo
 lkov\, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to h
 ave occurred in space. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-197
 1-06-29-soyuz-11\n• 2020 – Reddit banned r/The_Donald\, a pro-Trump su
 breddit\, for rule violations and antagonizing the company. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2020-06-29-reddit\n\nBorn 1686: Pietro P
 aolo Troisi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Paolo_Troisi\nBorn 1948: 
 Fred Grandy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy\nDied 1960: Elizabet
 h Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cooper\nBorn 1978: Nicole
  Scherzinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Scherzinger\n\nPictured:
  Location of Turtle Gut Inlet on map\, 1777.
SUMMARY:📅 June 29 · Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet\, Sinsinawa Mound raid\,
  United States v England…
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DESCRIPTION:June 30 in history:\n• 1398 – Zhu Yunwen ascended the thron
 e to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1398-06-30-jianwen-emperor\n• 1598 – Anglo-
 Spanish War: After a 15-day siege Spanish troops in San Juan\, modern-day 
 Puerto Rico\, surrendered to an English force under Sir George Clifford. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1598-06-30-battle-of-san-ju
 an-1598\n• 1966 – The National Organization for Women\, a leading Unit
 ed States feminist organization\, was founded in Washington\, D.C. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1966-06-30-national-organization-
 for-women\n• 1985 – Ryan White\, an HIV/AIDS patient in the US\, was d
 enied re-admission to his school after he had contracted the disease from 
 hemophilia treatments. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-198
 5-06-30-ryan-white\n• 2015 – An Indonesian Air Force military transpor
 t aircraft (pictured) crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan\, k
 illing 139 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-06
 -30-2015-sumatra-indonesian-air-force-c-130\n\nDied 888: Æthelred https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_%28archbishop_of_Canterbury%29\nDied 
 1839: Pierre David https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_David_%28mayor%29\
 nBorn 1958: Terri Lynn Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Lynn_Land\
 nDied 2021: Abdur Razzaq Iskander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdur_Razz
 aq_Iskander
SUMMARY:📅 June 30 · Jianwen Emperor\, Battle of San Juan (1598)\, Natio
 nal Organization for Women\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 1 in history:\n• 1523 – Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos 
 were burnt at the stake in Brussels (pictured)\, becoming the first Luther
 ans executed by the Council of Brabant. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1523-07-01-jan-van-essen-and-hendrik-vos\n• 1841 – Thoma
 s Lempriere and James Clark Ross carved a sandstone marker on Tasmania's I
 sle of the Dead\, one of the oldest benchmarks for measuring sea level ris
 e. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1841-07-01-thomas-lempr
 iere\n• 1916 – First World War: The first day of the Battle of Albert\
 , the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme\, became the bloodiest day 
 in the British Army's history\, with 57\,470 casualties\, including 19\,24
 0 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916-07-01-first
 -day-on-the-somme\n• 1959 – B. Anthony Stewart is credited with the fi
 rst image on the cover of National Geographic featuring the 49-star flag o
 f the United States after Alaska's admission to the Union as a U.S. state.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-07-01-list-of-nation
 al-geographic-cover-storie\n• 1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M je
 t crashed into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea\, killing all 23 peop
 le on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-07-01-19
 83-caak-ilyushin-il-62-crash\n\nDied 1925: Erik Satie https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Erik_Satie\nBorn 1961: Diana\, Princess of Wales https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales\nDied 1971: Learie Constantine h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learie_Constantine\nBorn 2000: Lalu Muhammad 
 Zohri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalu_Muhammad_Zohri\n\nPictured: The b
 urning of van Essen and Vos.
SUMMARY:📅 July 1 · Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos\, sea level rise\, Fir
 st day on the Somme\, List of…
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DESCRIPTION:July 2 in history:\n• 626 – Li Shimin (pictured) led his fo
 rces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne o
 f Tang China. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0626-07-02-x
 uanwu-gate-incident\n• 1816 – The ran aground off the coast of present
 -day Mauritania\, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft\, depict
 ed in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1816-07-02-the-raft-of-the-medusa\n•
  1941 – A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius\, Lithuania\, and began the 
 systematic execution of up to 100\,000 people over the next three years. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-07-02-ponary-massacre\
 n• 1976 – More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War\, North an
 d South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the Sociali
 st Republic of Vietnam. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 76-07-02-vietnam\n• 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announ
 ced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be nam
 ed Kerberos and Styx\, respectively. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2013-07-02-kerberos-moon\n\nDied 1883: Sihayo kaXongo https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihayo_kaXongo\nBorn 1936: Omar Suleiman https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman_%28politician%29\nDied 1983: Philippa Mdlu
 li https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Mdluli\nBorn 1986: Lindsay Lohan
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Lohan\n\nPictured: Li Shimin.
SUMMARY:📅 July 2 · Xuanwu Gate Incident\, The Raft of the Medusa\, Pona
 ry massacre\, Vietnam\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 3 in history:\n• 1810 – Mauritius campaign of 1809–1
 811: A French frigate squadron under Guy-Victor Duperré defeated a convoy
  of three British East Indiamen near the Comoro Islands. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1810-07-03-action-of-3-july-1810\n• 1970 
 – The Troubles: The British Army began the Falls Curfew in Belfast\, Nor
 thern Ireland\, which resulted in greater Irish republican resistance. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-07-03-falls-curfew\n• 
 1988 – The US Navy warship Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over 
 the Persian Gulf\, killing all 290 people aboard. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1988-07-03-iran-air-flight-655\n• 2005 – Same-
 sex marriage became legal in Spain under a law passed by the Cortes Genera
 les. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-07-03-same-sex-m
 arriage-in-spain\n• 2017 – In the U.S. state of Arizona\, the Boundary
  Fire (pictured) burned out after 32 days\, burning of the Coconino and Ka
 ibab National Forests. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-201
 7-07-03-boundary-fire-2017\n\nBorn 1518: Li Shizhen https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Li_Shizhen\nBorn 1936: Jerónimo Saavedra https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimo_Saavedra\nBorn 1992: Crystal Dunn https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Crystal_Dunn\nDied 2025: André Silva https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Andr%C3%A9_Silva_%28footballer%2C_born_2000%29\n\nPictured: The 2017 B
 oundary Fire.
SUMMARY:📅 July 3 · Action of 3 July 1810\, Falls Curfew\, Iran Air Flig
 ht 655\, Same-sex marriage in…
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DESCRIPTION:July 4 in history:\n• 414 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius II
  proclaimed his elder sister Aelia Pulcheria as Augusta. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-0414-07-04-pulcheria\n• 1776 – In Phila
 delphia\, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence
  (signing pictured)\, announcing that the thirteen American colonies were 
 no longer a part of the British Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1776-07-04-united-states-declaration-of-independenc\n• 195
 4 – In what is known as "The Miracle of Bern"\, West Germany defeated Hu
 ngary 3–2 to win the FIFA World Cup. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1954-07-04-1954-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 1988 – Kylie Mino
 gue's first album\, Kylie\, was released\, and went on to top the charts i
 n the UK and New Zealand. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1988-07-04-kylie-album\n• 2024 – Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to 
 a landslide victory in the United Kingdom general election\, ending fourte
 en years of Conservative rule. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-2024-07-04-2024-united-kingdom-general-election\n\nDied 1826: Thomas 
 Jefferson /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-thomas-jeffer
 son-q11812\nBorn 1960: Roland Ratzenberger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R
 oland_Ratzenberger\nDied 1993: Yvette Amice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Yvette_Amice\nBorn 2000: Rikako Ikee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikako_
 Ikee\n\nPictured: ''[[Declaration of Independence (painting).
SUMMARY:📅 July 4 · Pulcheria\, United States Declaration of Independenc
 e\, 1954 FIFA World Cup…
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DESCRIPTION:July 5 in history:\n• 1830 – Algiers surrendered to French 
 invaders\, ending the Regency of Algiers (coat of arms pictured). /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1830-07-05-regency-of-algiers\n•
  1922 – Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a r
 ebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio Pessoa and Presiden
 t-elect Artur Bernardes. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 922-07-05-copacabana-fort-revolt\n• 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporatio
 n introduced Spam\, the canned precooked meat product that would eventuall
 y enter into pop culture\, folklore\, and urban legend. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1937-07-05-spam-food\n• 1950 – Korean Wa
 r: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces\, an un
 prepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force was routed at the Battle o
 f Osan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-07-05-battle-
 of-osan\n• 1990 – An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview
 \, Texas\, United States\, killed 17 people and injured 5 others. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-07-05-1990-arco-explosion\n\n
 Born 1906: Greta Arwidsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Arwidsson\n
 Born 1946: Gerard 't Hooft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft
 \nBorn 1994: Shohei Ohtani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohei_Ohtani\nDi
 ed 2024: Jon Landau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Landau_%28film_produ
 cer%29\n\nPictured: Coat of arms of the Regency of Algiers.
SUMMARY:📅 July 5 · Regency of Algiers\, Copacabana Fort revolt\, Spam (
 food)\, Battle of Osan\, 1990…
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DESCRIPTION:July 6 in history:\n• 1483 – The last monarch of the House 
 of York and the Plantagenet dynasty\, Richard III\, was crowned King of En
 gland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1483-07-06-richard-
 iii-of-england\n• 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: A Royal Navy squad
 ron failed to eliminate a smaller French Navy squadron at Algeciras before
  they could join their Spanish allies. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1801-07-06-first-battle-of-algeciras\n• 1971 – After visi
 ting several Asian communist countries\, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușesc
 u (pictured) gave a speech on a number of neo-Stalinist and socialist-real
 ist ideals\, which became known as the July Theses. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1971-07-06-july-theses\n• 1989 – A Palestini
 an Islamic Jihad member carried out a suicide attack by hijacking a bus an
 d forcing it into a ravine near Kiryat Ye'arim\, Israel. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-07-06-1989-tel-aviv-jerusalem-bus-atta
 ck\n• 2006 – A gunman killed an 18-year-old man and injured six other 
 people in a mass shooting on Cabildo Avenue in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-07-06-martin-rios-murd
 erer\n\nBorn 1782: Maria Luisa\, Duchess of Lucca https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Maria_Luisa%2C_Duchess_of_Lucca\nDied 1902: Maria Goretti https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goretti\nBorn 1946: George W. Bush https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush\nDied 1976: Zhu De https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Zhu_De\n\nPictured: Nicolae Ceaușescu.
SUMMARY:📅 July 6 · Richard III of England\, First Battle of Algeciras\,
  July Theses\, 1989 Tel…
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DESCRIPTION:July 7 in history:\n• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Br
 itish forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga\,
  capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1777-07-07-battle-of-hubbardton\n• 1898 
 – US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution\, annexin
 g Hawaii as a territory of the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1898-07-07-newlands-resolution\n• 1911 – Four coun
 tries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention\, which banned the hunt
 ing of seals in the pelagic zone. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1911-07-07-north-pacific-fur-seal-convention-of-191\n• 1974 – 
 West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the M
 unich Olympiastadion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974
 -07-07-1974-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 2016 – A U.S. Army Reserve veteran
  ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dalla
 s\, killing five of them and injuring nine others\, before being killed by
  a bomb attached to a police robot. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-2016-07-07-2016-shooting-of-dallas-police-officers\n\nBorn 1869:
  Fernande Sadler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernande_Sadler\nDied 1890:
  Henri Nestlé https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Nestl%C3%A9\nBorn 1981:
  Maks Levin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maks_Levin\n\nPictured: Memorial
  service for the shot Dallas police officers.
SUMMARY:📅 July 7 · Battle of Hubbardton\, Newlands Resolution\, North P
 acific Fur Seal Convention…
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DESCRIPTION:July 8 in history:\n• 1776 – The United States Declaration 
 of Independence received its first formal public reading\, in Philadelphia
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-07-08-united-states
 -declaration-of-independenc\n• 1874 – Members of the North-West Mounte
 d Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West\, their first journey to 
 the Canadian Prairies. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-187
 4-07-08-march-west\n• 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "fl
 ying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell\, New Mexico\, t
 he military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather ball
 oon. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1947-07-08-roswell-in
 cident\n• 1990 – West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against def
 ending champions Argentina\, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only g
 oal. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-07-08-1990-fifa-
 world-cup-final\n• 2022 – Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (p
 ictured) was assassinated with an improvised firearm. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2022-07-08-assassination-of-shinzo-abe\n\nDied
  1953: Etta Lemon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Lemon\nBorn 1958: Tzi
 pi Livni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipi_Livni\nBorn 1991: Virgil van 
 Dijk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_van_Dijk\nDied 1994: Kim Il Sung
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung\n\nPictured: Shinzo Abe.
SUMMARY:📅 July 8 · United States Declaration of Independence\, March We
 st\, Roswell incident\, 1990…
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DESCRIPTION:July 9 in history:\n• 551 – An estimated 30\,000 people die
 d when a massive earthquake struck the Roman province of Phoenice. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0551-07-09-551-beirut-earthquake\
 n• 1763 – The Mozart family grand tour began\, presenting the child pr
 odigies Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus across Western Europe. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1763-07-09-mozart-family-grand-tour\n
 • 1981 – Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong\, which feature
 d the debut of Mario\, one of the most famous characters in video-game his
 tory. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-07-09-donkey-ko
 ng-1981-video-game\n• 2006 – Italy won their fourth FIFA World Cup tit
 le\, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extr
 a time (players pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -2006-07-09-2006-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 2008 – Under the belief that 
 Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program\,
  Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-07-09-great-prophet-iii\n\nBo
 rn 1526: Elizabeth of Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_A
 ustria_%281526%E2%80%931545%29\nBorn 1964: Courtney Love https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Courtney_Love\nDied 2012: Shin Jae-chul https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Shin_Jae-chul\nDied 2019: Fernando de la Rúa https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Fernando_de_la_R%C3%BAa\n\nPictured: Italian players celebratin
 g their 2006 World Cup victory.
SUMMARY:📅 July 9 · 551 Beirut earthquake\, Mozart family grand tour\, D
 onkey Kong (1981 video…
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DESCRIPTION:July 10 in history:\n• 1372 – The Treaty of Tagilde was sig
 ned between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt o
 f England\, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance\, which
  remains in effect today. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1372-07-10-treaty-of-tagilde\n• 1553 – Lady Jane Grey (pictured) was p
 roclaimed the successor to King Edward VI of England\, beginning her dispu
 ted reign as the "Nine Days' Queen". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1553-07-10-lady-jane-grey\n• 1921 – Irish War of Independen
 ce: One day after a truce was agreed between the Irish Republican Army and
  British forces\, violence broke out between Catholics and Protestants in 
 Belfast. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-07-10-bloody
 -sunday-1921\n• 1941 – The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 3
 00 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-07-10-jedwabne-pogrom\n• 2011 – 
 The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan
  on the Volga and sank in several minutes\, resulting in 122 deaths. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-07-10-bulgaria-1955-ship\n
 \nDied 1460: Humphrey Stafford\, 1st Duke of Buckingham https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Stafford%2C_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham\nDied 1576: Eleono
 ra di Garzia di Toledo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora_di_Garzia_di
 _Toledo\nBorn 1925: Mahathir Mohamad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathi
 r_Mohamad\nBorn 1977: Gwendoline Yeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendol
 ine_Yeo\n\nPictured: Lady Jane Grey.
SUMMARY:📅 July 10 · Treaty of Tagilde\, Lady Jane Grey\, Bloody Sunday 
 (1921)\, Jedwabne pogrom\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 11 in history:\n• 1833 – Yagan\, a Noongar warrior\, w
 as killed for leading attacks on British colonists in Western Australia. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1833-07-11-yagan\n• 1864 
 – A riot broke out in Leicester\, England\, at the failed launching of a
  gas balloon (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 864-07-11-leicester-balloon-riot\n• 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird\, a n
 ovel by Harper Lee featuring themes of racial injustice and the loss of in
 nocence in the Deep South of America\, was published. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1960-07-11-to-kill-a-mockingbird\n• 1991 –
  Shortly after taking off from Jeddah\, Saudi Arabia\, Nigeria Airways Fli
 ght 2120 caught fire and crashed\, killing all 261 people on board. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-07-11-nigeria-airways-fligh
 t-2120\n\nBorn 1896: Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
 skaq_Tjokrohadisurjo\nBorn 1934: Giorgio Armani https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Giorgio_Armani\nDied 2007: Lady Bird Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson\nDied 2015: Satoru Iwata https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Satoru_Iwata\n\nPictured: Leicester balloon riot\, 1864.
SUMMARY:📅 July 11 · Yagan\, Leicester balloon riot\, To Kill a Mockingb
 ird\, Nigeria Airways Flight…
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DESCRIPTION:July 12 in history:\n• 1561 – Saint Basil's Cathedral (pict
 ured)\, located in Red Square\, Moscow\, was consecrated. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1561-07-12-saint-basil-s-cathedral\n• 19
 63 – Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade\, the first victim of serial killers
  Ian Brady and Myra Hindley\, disappeared in Gorton\, England. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-07-12-moors-murders\n• 1979 
 – Rowdy fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago stormed the field during a Majo
 r League Baseball promotional event at which a crate of disco records was 
 blown up. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-07-12-disco
 -demolition-night\n• 1998 – France defeated the defending champions Br
 azil 3–0 to win their first FIFA World Cup title. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1998-07-12-1998-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 2006 
 – Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and attacked Isra
 eli military positions while firing rockets and mortars at Israeli towns\,
  sparking a five-week war. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -2006-07-12-2006-hezbollah-cross-border-raid\n\nDied 1804: Alexander Hamil
 ton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton\nBorn 1997: Malala Yo
 usafzai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai\nBorn 1998: Shai Gi
 lgeous-Alexander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Gilgeous-Alexander\nDi
 ed 2010: Mau Piailug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Piailug\n\nPictured
 : Saint Basil's Cathedral.
SUMMARY:📅 July 12 · Saint Basil's Cathedral\, Moors murders\, Disco Dem
 olition Night\, 1998 FIFA…
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DESCRIPTION:July 13 in history:\n• 1643 – English Civil War: Royalist f
 orces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near De
 vizes\, Wiltshire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1643-07
 -13-battle-of-roundway-down\n• 1794 – The Battle of Trippstadt between
  French forces and those of Prussia and Austria began. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1794-07-13-battle-of-trippstadt\n• 1831 –
  Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic\, which engendered 
 a period of reforms that provided for the westernization of the local soci
 ety. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1831-07-13-regulament
 ul-organic\n• 1962 – In an unprecedented reshuffle\, British prime min
 ister Harold Macmillan (pictured) dismissed seven members of his cabinet. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1962-07-13-night-of-the-lo
 ng-knives-1962\n\nDied 1491: Afonso\, Hereditary Prince of Portugal https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso%2C_Hereditary_Prince_of_Portugal\nDied 1934
 : Kate Sheppard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Sheppard\nBorn 1944: Er
 nő Rubik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Rubik\nBorn 1969: Ken Je
 ong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong\n\nPictured: Harold Macmillan.
SUMMARY:📅 July 13 · Battle of Roundway Down\, Battle of Trippstadt\, Re
 gulamentul Organic\, Night of…
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DESCRIPTION:July 14 in history:\n• 1223 – Louis VIII (seal pictured) be
 gan his three-year reign as King of France. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1223-07-14-louis-viii-of-france\n• 1798 – The Sediti
 on Act became law\, making it a federal crime to write\, publish\, or utte
 r false or malicious statements about the U.S. federal government. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1798-07-14-alien-and-sedition-act
 s\n• 1865 – A seven-man mountaineering team made the first ascent of t
 he Matterhorn\, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1865-07-14-first-ascent-of-the-matter
 horn\n• 1960 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditched off Polil
 lo Island in the Philippines\, killing one person and injuring 44 others. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-07-14-northwest-orien
 t-airlines-flight-1-11\n• 2014 – Lightning strikes started four fires 
 in the Methow Valley in the U.S. state of Washington\, collectively known 
 as the Carlton Complex Fire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2014-07-14-carlton-complex-fire\n\nBorn 1752: Andreas Joseph Hofmann ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Joseph_Hofmann\nBorn 1825: Georgiana H
 ill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiana_Hill_%28cookery_book_writer%29
 \nDied 1967: Harry Atwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Atwood\nDied
  2022: Ivana Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump\n\nPictured: 
 Seal of Louis&nbsp\;VIII of France.
SUMMARY:📅 July 14 · Louis VIII of France\, Alien and Sedition Acts\, fi
 rst ascent of the Matterhorn\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 15 in history:\n• 1410 – The Kingdom of Poland and the
  Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of G
 runwald\, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic Wa
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1410-07-15-battle-of-gr
 unwald\n• 1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon\, French emperor Napoleon surr
 endered to Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland\, concluding the Na
 poleonic Wars. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1815-07-15-
 hms-bellerophon-1786\n• 1983 – Sega's first home video game console\, 
 the SG-1000 (pictured)\, was released in Japan. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1983-07-15-sg-1000\n• 2009 – A 7.8 earthquake st
 ruck a remote region of Fiordland\, New Zealand\, the country's largest ea
 rthquake magnitude since the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-07-15-2009-dusky-sound-earthquake\n
 • 2018 – Croatian Mario Mandžukić scored the first own goal in a FIF
 A World Cup final in their defeat to France. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2018-07-15-2018-fifa-world-cup-final\n\nBorn 1606: Remb
 randt /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-rembrandt-q5598\n
 Died 1961: Nina Bari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Bari\nBorn 1975: C
 herry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_%28American_wrestler%29\nDied 2
 012: Celeste Holm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_Holm\n\nPictured: 
 SG-1000.
SUMMARY:📅 July 15 · Battle of Grunwald\, HMS Bellerophon (1786)\, SG-10
 00\, 2009 Dusky Sound…
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DESCRIPTION:July 16 in history:\n• 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf\, who late
 r established the Emirate of Granada\, the last Muslim state in Spain\, wa
 s elected the ruler of Arjona. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1232-07-16-muhammad-i-of-granada\n• 1916 – Max Reger's Hebbel Req
 uiem was first performed in a memorial concert for the composer\, conducte
 d by Philipp Wolfrum. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916
 -07-16-requiem-reger\n• 1950 – Uruguay won the decisive match of the f
 ourth FIFA World Cup\, defeating Brazil 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium in 
 Rio de Janeiro. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-07-16
 -uruguay-v-brazil-1950-fifa-world-cup\n• 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye
  (cover pictured)\, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger\, wa
 s published by Little\, Brown. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1951-07-16-the-catcher-in-the-rye\n• 2007 – A magnitude-6.6 earth
 quake struck off the coast of Niigata Prefecture\, Japan\, causing a leak 
 of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-07-16-2007-chuetsu-offsho
 re-earthquake\n\nBorn 1936: Yasuo Fukuda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yas
 uo_Fukuda\nBorn 1988: Sergio Busquets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio
 _Busquets\nDied 2015: Evelyn Ebsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn
 _Ebsworth\nDied 2025: Connie Francis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_
 Francis\n\nPictured: First-edition cover of ''The Catcher in the Rye''.
SUMMARY:📅 July 16 · Muhammad I of Granada\, Requiem (Reger)\, Uruguay v
  Brazil (1950 FIFA World…
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DESCRIPTION:July 17 in history:\n• 1771 – Dene men who were acting as g
 uides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in prese
 nt-day Nunavut\, Canada\, massacred a group of about twenty Copper Inuit. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1771-07-17-bloody-falls-ma
 ssacre\n• 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by
  General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1863-07-17-new-zealand-wars\n• 1968 –
  Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured)\, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 
 overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in a bloodless coup. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-07-17-17-july-revolution\n• 
 1994 – Brazil won the FIFA World Cup final against Italy 3–2 on penalt
 ies\, following a 0–0 draw after extra time. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1994-07-17-1994-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 2007 – TA
 M Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Pau
 lo\, Brazil\, killing 199 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-2007-07-17-tam-airlines-flight-3054\n\nBorn 1819: Eunice Newton Fo
 ote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote\nBorn 1958: Wong Kar
 -wai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai\nDied 2015: Jules Bianchi 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bianchi\nDied 2025: Felix Baumgartner 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner\n\nPictured: Ahmed Hassan 
 al-Bakr.
SUMMARY:📅 July 17 · Bloody Falls massacre\, invasion of the Waikato\, 1
 7 July Revolution\, 1994 FIFA…
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DESCRIPTION:July 18 in history:\n• 1290 – King Edward I issued an edict
  to expel all Jews from England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1290-07-18-edict-of-expulsion\n• 1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach d
 irected the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich\, Gott\, und e
 rfahre mein Herz in Leipzig. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1723-07-18-erforsche-mich-gott-und-erfahre-mein-her\n• 1976 – At th
 e Olympic Games in Montreal\, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first 
 gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-07-18-nadia-comaneci\n• 198
 9 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert Joh
 n Bardo\, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in Califo
 rnia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-07-18-rebecca-s
 chaeffer\n• 1995 – Selena's album Dreaming of You\, instrumental in po
 pularizing Tejano music\, was posthumously released. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1995-07-18-dreaming-of-you-selena-album\n\nDied
  1872: Benito Juárez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%C3%A1rez\nBo
 rn 1950: Richard Branson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson\nBo
 rn 1975: M.I.A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._%28rapper%29\nDied 20
 05: Amy Gillett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Gillett\n\nPictured: Nad
 ia Comăneci on the balance beam.
SUMMARY:📅 July 18 · Edict of Expulsion\, Erforsche mich\, Gott\, und er
 fahre mein Herz\, BWV 136\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 19 in history:\n• 1845 – A fire in Manhattan\, New Yor
 k City\, destroyed 345 buildings\, killed 30 people\, and caused at least 
 $5 million in damage. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1845
 -07-19-great-new-york-city-fire-of-1845\n• 1903 – French cyclist Mauri
 ce Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1903-07-19-1903-tour-de-france\n• 1919 – F
 ollowing Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War\, E
 nglish ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted
  and burned down Luton Town Hall. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1919-07-19-luton-town-hall\n• 1976 – Environmental activists b
 ombed the port facilities in Bunbury\, Western Australia\, in an attempt t
 o disrupt the woodchipping industry. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1976-07-19-bunbury-woodchip-bombing\n• 2013 – The NASA spac
 ecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (det
 ail pictured)\, for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn". /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-07-19-the-day-the-earth-smil
 ed\n\nBorn 1871: Marie Goldsmith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Golds
 mith\nBorn 1937: Chetana Nagavajara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetana_
 Nagavajara\nBorn 1998: Karl Jacobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaco
 bs\nDied 2018: Denis Ten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Ten\n\nPictur
 ed: Detail from ''The Day the Earth Smiled''\, with Earth as a pale dot be
 tween Saturn's rings.
SUMMARY:📅 July 19 · Great New York City Fire of 1845\, 1903 Tour de Fra
 nce\, Luton Town Hall\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 20 in history:\n• 1807 – French brothers Claude and Ni
 céphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore\, one of the wo
 rld's first internal combustion engines. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1807-07-20-pyreolophore\n• 1951 – Abdullah I of Jordan 
 was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1951-07-20-assassination-of-abdulla
 h-i-of-jordan\n• 1976 – The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraf
 t to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-07-20-viking-1\n• 1997 – \, one of 
 the United States Navy's original six frigates\, sailed for the first time
  in 116 years after a full restoration. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1997-07-20-uss-constitution\n• 2015 – A suicide attack (
 aftermath pictured) in Suruç\, Turkey\, for which Islamic State of Iraq a
 nd the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility\, killed 34 people and injured
  104 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-07-20-su
 ruc-bombing\n\nBorn 356: Alexander the Great /travel/calendars/famous-live
 s/events/famous-lives-alexander-the-great-q8409\nDied 1971: Amanda Clement
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Clement\nDied 1973: Bruce Lee /trave
 l/calendars/painters/events/painters-bruce-lee-q16397\nBorn 1980: Gisele B
 ündchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisele_B%C3%BCndchen\n\nPictured: F
 orensic experts at the site of the Suruç bombing.
SUMMARY:📅 July 20 · Pyréolophore\, Assassination of Abdullah I of Jord
 an\, Viking 1\, \, one of the…
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DESCRIPTION:July 21 in history:\n• 625 – Paulinus was consecrated as th
 e first bishop of York by Justus\, the archbishop of Canterbury. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0625-07-21-paulinus-of-york\n• 19
 25 – American high-school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilt
 y of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which forbade teaching evolution in 
 class. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-07-21-scopes-t
 rial\n• 1946 – After weeks of unrest\, rioters lynched Bolivian presid
 ent Gualberto Villarroel\, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the stree
 ts of La Paz. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1946-07-21-1
 946-la-paz-riots\n• 1972 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republi
 can Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast\, Northern Ireland.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-07-21-bloody-friday-
 1972\n• 2019 – People returning from anti–extradition bill protests 
 in Hong Kong were attacked (pictured) by suspected triad members in Yuen L
 ong\, leaving 45 people injured. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-2019-07-21-2019-yuen-long-attack\n\nBorn 1928: George Brian Sinclai
 r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brian_Sinclair\nDied 1944: Claus vo
 n Stauffenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg\nBorn 
 1971: Charlotte Gainsbourg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Gainsbo
 urg\nBorn 2006: Endrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrick\n\nPictured:
  Yuen Long attack.
SUMMARY:📅 July 21 · Paulinus of York\, Scopes trial\, 1946 La Paz riots
 \, Bloody Friday (1972)\, 2019…
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DESCRIPTION:July 22 in history:\n• 1209 – A crusading army captured Bé
 ziers\, France\, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major m
 ilitary action of the Albigensian Crusade. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1209-07-22-massacre-at-beziers\n• 1691 – Williamite f
 orces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim\, the decisive battl
 e of the Williamite War in Ireland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1691-07-22-battle-of-aughrim\n• 1951 – Soviet space dogs: De
 zik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin 
 Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely retu
 rn. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1951-07-22-dezik-and-t
 sygan\n• 1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak 
 (first flag pictured)\; the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-07-22-sarawak\n• 1976 –
  Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes com
 mitted during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World
  War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1976-07-22-japanese-
 occupation-of-the-philippines\n\nBorn 1917: Adam Malik https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Adam_Malik\nBorn 1976: Nadja Stefanoff https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Nadja_Stefanoff\nDied 2016: Ursula Franklin https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Ursula_Franklin\nDied 2025: Ozzy Osbourne https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Ozzy_Osbourne\n\nPictured: First flag of Sarawak.
SUMMARY:📅 July 22 · Massacre at Béziers\, Battle of Aughrim\, Dezik an
 d Tsygan\, Sarawak\, Japanese…
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DESCRIPTION:July 23 in history:\n• 1891 – During a visit of the French 
 Navy to Kronstadt in Russia\, the two nations reached a secret agreement o
 n a joint response to any future war in Europe. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1891-07-23-kronstadt-toulon-naval-visits\n• 1942 
 – Bulgarian poet and communist activist Nikola Vaptsarov was executed by
  firing squad. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-07-23-
 nikola-vaptsarov\n• 1995 – Hale–Bopp\, one of the most widely observ
 ed comets of the 20th century\, was independently discovered by astronomer
 s Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1995-07-23-comet-hale-bopp\n• 1999 – Forty-seven people were arrest
 ed in Tulia\, Texas\, for dealing cocaine\; 35 of them were pardoned by th
 e governor of Texas years later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1999-07-23-1999-tulia-drug-arrests\n• 2010 – The English-Irish 
 boy band One Direction (pictured) were formed while auditioning for the 20
 10 series of the British singing competition The X Factor. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-07-23-one-direction\n\nBorn 1773: Th
 omas Brisbane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brisbane\nDied 1980: Mo
 llie Steimer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Steimer\nBorn 1996: Davi
 d Dobrik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dobrik\nDied 2025: Arnold Pal
 acios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palacios\n\nPictured: One Direc
 tion.
SUMMARY:📅 July 23 · Kronstadt–Toulon naval visits\, Nikola Vaptsarov\
 , Comet Hale–Bopp\, 1999 Tulia…
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DESCRIPTION:July 24 in history:\n• 1920 – Franco-Syrian War: At the Bat
 tle of Maysalun\, forces of the Arab Kingdom of Syria were defeated by a F
 rench army moving to occupy the territory allocated to them by the San Rem
 o conference. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-07-24-b
 attle-of-maysalun\n• 1948 – Australia set a world record for the highe
 st successful run-chase in Test cricket history during the Fourth Test of 
 the Ashes series against England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1948-07-24-fourth-test-1948-ashes-series\n• 1974 – The Metapol
 itefsi period began with Konstantinos Karamanlis (pictured) taking office 
 as Prime Minister of Greece after the collapse of the military junta. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-07-24-metapolitefsi\n• 
 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: In opposition to the American plan to protect Ku
 waiti tankers\, Iran laid mines and damaged the SS Bridgeton\, resulting i
 n a propaganda victory for Iran. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1987-07-24-bridgeton-incident\n• 2014 – Air Algérie Flight 501
 7 disappeared from radar shortly after take-off from Ouagadougou\, Burkina
  Faso\; its wreckage was found the following day in Mali with no survivors
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-07-24-air-algerie-f
 light-5017\n\nDied 946: Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Tughj_al-Ikhshid\nDied 1851: Matooskie https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Matooskie\nBorn 1989: Eko Yuli Irawan https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Eko_Yuli_Irawan\nBorn 1998: Bindi Irwin https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Bindi_Irwin\n\nPictured: Konstantinos Karamanlis.
SUMMARY:📅 July 24 · Battle of Maysalun\, Fourth Test\, 1948 Ashes serie
 s\, Metapolitefsi\, Bridgeton…
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DESCRIPTION:July 25 in history:\n• 1261 – Struggle for Constantinople: 
 Alexios Strategopoulos led Nicaean forces to recapture Constantinople\, le
 ading to the reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the La
 tin Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1261-07-25-ale
 xios-strategopoulos\n• 1591 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English for
 ces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands\, having 
 defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1591-07-25-siege-of-knodsenburg\n• 1950 – Korean
  War: After American troops withdrew\, North Korean forces captured the vi
 llage of Yongdong in South Korea. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1950-07-25-battle-of-yongdong\n• 2001 – Phoolan Devi\, a servi
 ng Indian member of Parliament\, was shot outside her house in New Delhi\,
  India. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-07-25-phoolan
 -devi\n• 2022 – The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured) in 
 Great Baddow\, an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal work"\, 
 was designated a listed building by Historic England. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2022-07-25-duffield-memorial\n\nDied 1190: Sib
 ylla\, Queen of Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylla%2C_Queen_o
 f_Jerusalem\nBorn 1986: Hulk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_%28footbal
 ler%29\nBorn 2001: Chawarin Perdpiriyawong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
 hawarin_Perdpiriyawong\nDied 2022: David Trimble https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/David_Trimble\n\nPictured: Central medallion of the Duffield Memorial
 .
SUMMARY:📅 July 25 · Alexios Strategopoulos\, siege of Knodsenburg\, Bat
 tle of Yongdong\, Phoolan…
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DESCRIPTION:July 26 in history:\n• 1759 – French and Indian War: Troops
  led by French brigadier general François-Charles de Bourlamaque attempte
 d to blow up Fort Carillon\, near present-day Ticonderoga\, New York\, rat
 her than defending it against approaching British forces. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1759-07-26-battle-of-ticonderoga-1759\n•
  1882 – Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later f
 lag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of British Bec
 huanaland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1882-07-26-stel
 laland\n• 1953 – The Battle of the Samichon River\, the last engagemen
 t of the Korean War\, ended a few hours before the signing of the Korean A
 rmistice Agreement. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1953-0
 7-26-battle-of-the-samichon-river\n• 1968 – After coming second to Ngu
 yễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election\, Trương Đình Dzu
  was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency tran
 sactions. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1968-07-26-tr-ng
 -dinh-dzu\n• 2012 – The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a me
 rger of a number of dissident republican militant groups. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-2012-07-26-new-irish-republican-army\n\nBo
 rn 1856: George Bernard Shaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_
 Shaw\nDied 1926: Robert Todd Lincoln https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_
 Todd_Lincoln\nBorn 1967: Jason Statham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason
 _Statham\nDied 2021: Mike Enzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Enzi\n\n
 Pictured: Flag of Stellaland.
SUMMARY:📅 July 26 · Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)\, Stellaland\, Battle 
 of the Samichon River\, Trương…
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DESCRIPTION:July 27 in history:\n• 1302 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The
  Ottoman sultanate gained its first major victory against the Byzantine Em
 pire at the Battle of Bapheus in Bithynia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1302-07-27-battle-of-bapheus\n• 1953 – An armistice w
 as signed to end hostilities in the Korean War\, officially making the div
 ision of Korea indefinite by creating a 4 km wide (2.5 mi) demilitarized z
 one across the Korean Peninsula. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1953-07-27-korean-armistice-agreement\n• 1990 – Jamaat al Musli
 meen\, a radical Islamic group\, began a coup attempt against the governme
 nt of Trinidad and Tobago by taking hostages\, including Prime Minister A.
  N. R. Robinson\, before surrendering five days later. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1990-07-27-jamaat-al-muslimeen-coup-attempt\n
 • 2016 – The last nine Aston Martin DB9 (example pictured) units rolle
 d off the production line\, marking the end of a twelve-year manufacturing
  period. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2016-07-27-aston-
 martin-db9\n\nBorn 1578: Frances Stewart\, Duchess of Lennox https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stewart%2C_Duchess_of_Lennox\nBorn 1890: Benjamin
  Miessner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Miessner\nBorn 1969: Daci
 an Cioloș https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Ciolo%C8%99\nDied 2020: Ow
 en Arthur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Arthur\n\nPictured: Aston Mar
 tin DB9.
SUMMARY:📅 July 27 · Battle of Bapheus\, Korean Armistice Agreement\, Ja
 maat al Muslimeen coup…
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DESCRIPTION:July 28 in history:\n• 1899 – A Category 1 hurricane (map p
 ictured) made landfall in Azua Province in the Dominican Republic\, destro
 ying three large schooners at Santo Domingo\; only one crew member on the 
 three vessels survived. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 99-07-28-1899-carrabelle-hurricane\n• 1911 – The Australasian Antarcti
 c Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-07-28-australasian-antarctic-ex
 pedition\n• 1915 – U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a ni
 neteen-year occupation of Haiti. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1915-07-28-united-states-occupation-of-haiti\n• 2010 – In the d
 eadliest air accident in Pakistan's history\, Airblue Flight 202 crashed i
 nto the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad\, killing all 152 aboard. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-07-28-airblue-flight-202\n\
 nDied 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/fa
 mous-lives-johann-sebastian-bach-q1339\nBorn 1903: R. A. B. Mynors https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._B._Mynors\nBorn 1993: Harry Kane https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kane\nDied 2014: James Shigeta https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/James_Shigeta\n\nPictured: [[Surface weather analysis]] of the 
 Carrabelle hurricane.
SUMMARY:📅 July 28 · 1899 Carrabelle hurricane\, Australasian Antarctic 
 Expedition\, United States…
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DESCRIPTION:July 29 in history:\n• 1567 – The infant James VI was crown
 ed King of Scotland at Stirling. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1567-07-29-coronation-of-james-vi\n• 1818 – French physicist Au
 gustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the 
 Royal Academy of Sciences\, providing strong support for the wave theory o
 f light. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1818-07-29-august
 in-jean-fresnel\n• 1900 – Italian anarchist Gaetano Bresci (pictured) 
 assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1900-07-29-gaetano-bresci\n• 1911 – In a case lat
 er termed a "legal lynching"\, Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and
  death sentence against 15-year-old León Martínez Jr.\, five days after 
 his arrest for killing a white woman. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1911-07-29-will-p-brady\n• 1950 – Korean War: Over fears t
 hat North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns\, U.S. forces 
 concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings a
 nd air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1950-07-29-no-gun-ri-massacre\n\nDied 1095: Ladislaus 
 I of Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus%26nbsp%3BI_of_Hungary
 \nBorn 1846: Isabel\, Princess Imperial of Brazil https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Isabel%2C_Princess_Imperial_of_Brazil\nBorn 1982: Allison Mack https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Mack\nDied 2009: Gayatri Devi https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Devi\n\nPictured: Gaetano Bresci.
SUMMARY:📅 July 29 · Coronation of James VI\, Augustin-Jean Fresnel\, Ga
 etano Bresci\, Will P. Brady\,…
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DESCRIPTION:July 30 in history:\n• 1916 – World War I: German agents sa
 botaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to
  the Allies. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916-07-30-bl
 ack-tom-explosion\n• 1966 – In London\, the England national football 
 team won the FIFA World Cup\, winning the final against West Germany 4–2
  after extra time. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1966-07
 -30-1966-fifa-world-cup-final\n• 1981 – Amid a widespread economic cri
 sis and food shortages in Poland\, up to 50\,000 people\, mostly women and
  children\, took part in the largest of nationwide hunger demonstrations i
 n Łódź. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-07-30-1981
 -polish-hunger-demonstrations\n• 2012 – A train fire killed 32 passeng
 ers and injured 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh\, India. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2012-07-30-nellore-train-fir
 e\n• 2018 – Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first ful
 l term as president\, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean co
 up d'état. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2018-07-30-201
 8-zimbabwean-general-election\n\nBorn 1914: Michael Morris\, 3rd Baron Kil
 lanin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morris%2C_3rd_Baron_Killanin\n
 Born 1958: Kate Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush\nDied 1996: C
 laudette Colbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colbert\nDied 202
 0: Lee Teng-hui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Teng-hui\n\nPictured: Em
 merson Mnangagwa.
SUMMARY:📅 July 30 · Black Tom explosion\, 1966 FIFA World Cup final\, 1
 981 Polish hunger…
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DESCRIPTION:July 31 in history:\n• 1777 – The Second Continental Congre
 ss passed a resolution commissioning the Marquis de Lafayette (pictured) a
 s a major general in the American revolutionary forces. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1777-07-31-marquis-de-lafayette\n• 1941 
 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler\, Hermann Göring 
 authorised SS officer Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for the "Fi
 nal Solution of the Jewish question". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1941-07-31-final-solution\n• 2000 – Three years after bein
 g hit by a mudslide\, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong full
 y reopened. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2000-07-31-ten
 -thousand-buddhas-monastery\n• 2002 – Hamas attackers detonated a bomb
  at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, killin
 g nine students and injuring about 100 more. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2002-07-31-hebrew-university-bombing\n• 2020 – A mi
 d-air collision in Soldotna\, Alaska\, United States\, killed seven people
 \, including state representative Gary Knopp. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-2020-07-31-2020-alaska-mid-air-collision\n\nBorn 1598:
  Alessandro Algardi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Algardi\nDied
  1864: Louis Hachette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Hachette\nDied 1
 917: Hedd Wyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedd_Wyn\n\nPictured: Gilbert 
 du Motier\, Marquis de Lafayette.
SUMMARY:📅 July 31 · Marquis de Lafayette\, Final Solution\, Ten Thousan
 d Buddhas Monastery\, Hebrew…
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DESCRIPTION:August 1 in history:\n• 527 – Upon the death of Justin I\, 
 his nephew and adopted son Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzant
 ine Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0527-08-01-jus
 tin-i\n• 1814 – Britain celebrated the Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years
  since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of the Battl
 e of the Nile. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1814-08-01-
 grand-jubilee-of-1814\n• 1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh\, a pair of
  benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refuge
 es of the Bangladesh genocide\, took place at Madison Square Garden in New
  York. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-08-01-the-conc
 ert-for-bangladesh\n• 1984 – Commercial peat cutters discovered a pres
 erved bog body\, now known as Lindow Man\, at Lindow Moss in Cheshire\, En
 gland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1984-08-01-lindow-m
 an\n• 2007 – Bridge 9340\, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississi
 ppi River in Minneapolis\, United States\, suffered a catastrophic failure
  and collapsed (aftermath pictured)\, killing 13 people and injuring 145 o
 thers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-08-01-i-35w-mi
 ssissippi-river-bridge\n\nBorn 1545: Andrew Melville https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Andrew_Melville\nBorn 1905: Helen Sawyer Hogg https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Helen_Sawyer_Hogg\nDied 1970: Frances Farmer https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer\nDied 2010: Lolita Lebrón https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Lolita_Lebr%C3%B3n\n\nPictured: Cars on the {{nowrap.
SUMMARY:📅 August 1 · Justin I\, Grand Jubilee of 1814\, The Concert for
  Bangladesh\, Lindow Man\, I-35W…
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DESCRIPTION:August 2 in history:\n• 1870 – One of the world's earliest 
 underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted)\,
  a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1870-08-02-tower-subway\n• 1914 – The French army'
 s general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-08-02-grand-quartier-
 general-1914-1919\n• 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology\
 , American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatte
 r with the discovery of the positron\, for which he would receive the 1936
  Nobel Prize in Physics. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 932-08-02-california-institute-of-technology\n• 1939 – Leo Szilard pen
 ned a letter\, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president F
 ranklin D. Roosevelt\, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs\, lea
 ding to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1939-08-02-einstein-szilard-letter\n• 1986 –
  The animated film Castle in the Sky\, the first from Studio Ghibli\, was 
 released. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1986-08-02-castl
 e-in-the-sky\n\nBorn 1919: Nehemiah Persoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Nehemiah_Persoff\nDied 1983: James Jamerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 James_Jamerson\nBorn 1968: Chrystia Freeland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Chrystia_Freeland\nBorn 1995: Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Kevin_Sanjaya_Sukamuljo\n\nPictured: Drawing of the interior of
  the Tower Subway.
SUMMARY:📅 August 2 · Tower Subway\, Grand Quartier Général (1914–19
 19)\, positron\, Einstein–Szilard…
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DESCRIPTION:August 3 in history:\n• 1460 – James II of Scotland (pictur
 ed) was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1460-08-03-james-ii-of-scotland\n• 1903 
 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic\, which existed f
 or ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1903-08-03-krusevo-republic\n• 1936 – Afri
 can-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at 
 the Berlin Olympics\, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at t
 he games. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-08-03-jesse
 -owens\n• 1971 – Fighting Dinosaurs\, a fossil specimen featuring a Ve
 lociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat\, was unearthed in the Djadochta 
 Formation of Mongolia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-197
 1-08-03-fighting-dinosaurs\n• 2005 – Mauritanian president Maaouya Oul
 d Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the f
 uneral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2005-08-03-2005-mauritanian-coup-d-etat\n\nBorn 1924: Connie Co
 nverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse\nBorn 1926: Tony Benn
 ett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett\nDied 1963: Signe Salén ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe_Sal%C3%A9n\nBorn 1970: Masahiro Sakurai 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Sakurai\n\nPictured: James II of Sc
 otland.
SUMMARY:📅 August 3 · James II of Scotland\, Kruševo Republic\, Jesse O
 wens\, Fighting Dinosaurs\, 2005…
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DESCRIPTION:August 4 in history:\n• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: C
 ommanded by Napoleon Bonaparte\, the French Army of Italy decisively defea
 ted Austrian forces led by Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich at the Battle of L
 onato. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1796-08-04-battle-o
 f-lonato\n• 1830 – American surveyor James Thompson produced the first
  plat of Chicago for the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1830-08-04-james-thompson-survey
 or\n• 1964 – Vietnam War: The National Security Agency falsely claimed
  that a U.S. Navy destroyer (pictured) was attacked a second time by North
  Vietnamese vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin\, leading Congress to authorize 
 the use of military force. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1964-08-04-gulf-of-tonkin-incident\n• 1983 – Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
 \, the president of Upper Volta\, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Thom
 as Sankara. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-08-04-198
 3-upper-voltan-coup-d-etat\n• 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Croatian Army 
 initiated Operation Storm\, the last major battle of the Croatian War of I
 ndependence and the largest European land battle since the Second World Wa
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-08-04-operation-st
 orm\n\nDied 1306: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Wenceslaus_III_of_Bohemia\nBorn 1971: Jeff Gordon https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Jeff_Gordon\nBorn 1998: Mariah May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar
 iah_May\nDied 2013: Keith H. Basso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_H._
 Basso\n\nPictured: [[USS Maddox (DD-731).
SUMMARY:📅 August 4 · Battle of Lonato\, James Thompson (surveyor)\, Gul
 f of Tonkin incident\, 1983…
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DESCRIPTION:August 5 in history:\n• 1716 – Austro-Turkish War: The Otto
 man army were defeated in their attempt to capture the Habsburg-controlled
  Petrovaradin Fortress despite having twice the number of soldiers. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1716-08-05-battle-of-petrovaradi
 n\n• 1816 – Sir John Barrow\, secretary at the Admiralty\, rejected a 
 proposal to use Francis Ronalds electrical telegraph\, deeming it "wholly 
 unnecessary". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1816-08-05-f
 rancis-ronalds\n• 2012 – Radio Network House\, damaged in the 2011 Chr
 istchurch earthquake\, becomes the first building to be demolished by impl
 osion in New Zealand. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2012
 -08-05-implosion-of-radio-network-house\n\nBorn 1915: Clair Blank https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Blank\nBorn 1965: Motoi Sakuraba https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Motoi_Sakuraba\nBorn 2004: Gavi https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Gavi_%28footballer%29\nDied 2011: Zyzz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Zyzz\n\nPictured: Emperor Guangwu depicted in the ''[[Sancai Tuhui]]''.
SUMMARY:📅 August 5 · Battle of Petrovaradin\, Francis Ronalds\, Implosi
 on of Radio Network House
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DESCRIPTION:August 6 in history:\n• 686 – Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces
  defeated the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Khazir\, allowing them to
  take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-0686-08-06-battle-of-khazir\n• 1930 – New York Supre
 me Court judge Joseph Force Crater disappeared in Manhattan\, in a case th
 at was never solved. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1930-
 08-06-joseph-force-crater\n• 1996 – Researchers announced that the met
 eorite ALH84001 (pictured)\, discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica\,
  may contain evidence of life on Mars\, but further tests were inconclusiv
 e. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-08-06-allan-hills-
 84001\n• 2010 – Flash floods\, mudslides\, and debris flows across Lad
 akh in Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-08-06-2010-ladakh-floods\n•
  2011 – A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in ci
 ties and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan b
 y Metropolitan Police officers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-2011-08-06-killing-of-mark-duggan\n\nDied 1221: Dominic de Guzmán h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_de_Guzm%C3%A1n\nBorn 1911: Lucille Ba
 ll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball\nDied 1931: Bix Beiderbecke 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke\nDied 1931: John Richard Cla
 rk Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Richard_Clark_Hall\n\nPictured:
  ALH84001.
SUMMARY:📅 August 6 · Battle of Khazir\, Joseph Force Crater\, Allan Hil
 ls 84001\, 2010 Ladakh floods\,…
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DESCRIPTION:August 7 in history:\n• 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin
  staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1461-08-07-rebellion-of-cao-qin\n• 1942 – Wo
 rld War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Gua
 dalcanal campaign\, with landings on Tulagi (pictured)\, Gavutu–Tanambog
 o and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1942-08-07-battle-of-tulagi-and-gavutu-tanambogo\n• 1946
  – The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was
  handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests
  of Turkey's fellow Black Sea nations\, escalating the Turkish Straits cri
 sis. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1946-08-07-turkish-st
 raits-crisis\n• 1970 – Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse 
 in Marin County\, California\, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothe
 rs\, resulting in the deaths of judge Harold Haley and three others. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-08-07-marin-county-civic-c
 enter-attacks\n• 2020 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the run
 way at Calicut International Airport in Kerala\, India\, and crashed\, kil
 ling 21 of the 190 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-2020-08-07-air-india-express-flight-1344\n\nDied 1661: Jin Sheng
 tan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Shengtan\nBorn 1975: Charlize Theron
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize_Theron\nBorn 1992: Wout Weghorst h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wout_Weghorst\nDied 2021: Douglas Applegate h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Applegate\n\nPictured: U.S. Marines w
 ading ashore on Tulagi.
SUMMARY:📅 August 7 · Rebellion of Cao Qin\, Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu
 –Tanambogo\, Turkish Straits…
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DESCRIPTION:August 8 in history:\n• 1695 – The foundation for what is n
 ow known as the Wren Building\, the oldest surviving college building in t
 he United States\, was laid in a ceremony at Middle Plantation\, Virginia.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1695-08-08-wren-building\
 n• 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in northern France\, marking the 
 start of the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines
  that ultimately led to the end of World War I. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1918-08-08-battle-of-amiens-1918\n• 1991 – The W
 arsaw radio mast (pictured)\, then the tallest structure ever built\, at 6
 46.38 metres (2\,120.7 ft)\, collapsed due to an error in exchanging the g
 uys on the highest telecommunications equipment of the mast. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-08-08-warsaw-radio-mast\n• 2010 
 – A massive mudslide in the Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 1\
 ,471 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-08-08-20
 10-gansu-mudslide\n\nBorn 1876: Sophia Duleep Singh https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Sophia_Duleep_Singh\nBorn 1995: S.Coups https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/S.Coups\nDied 2009: Daniel Jarque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel
 _Jarque\nDied 2022: Olivia Newton-John https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivi
 a_Newton-John\n\nPictured: Warsaw radio mast.
SUMMARY:📅 August 8 · Wren Building\, Battle of Amiens (1918)\, Warsaw r
 adio mast\, 2010 Gansu mudslide
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DESCRIPTION:August 9 in history:\n• 1902 – In a ceremony at Westminster
  Abbey\, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the Unite
 d Kingdom and the British Dominions\, and Emperor and Empress of India. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1902-08-09-edward-vii\n• 1
 960 – Led by Albert Kalonji\, South Kasai declared its unilateral secess
 ion from the Republic of the Congo. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1960-08-09-south-kasai\n• 1979 – Female workers of YH Tradin
 g in South Korea held a sit-in protest in response to the company's unilat
 eral shutdown. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-08-09-
 yh-incident\n• 2018 – A civilian school bus in Dahyan\, Yemen\, was bo
 mbed by Saudi forces\, killing at least 40 children. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-2018-08-09-dahyan-airstrike\n• 2023 – Ecuad
 orian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in Qu
 ito\, eleven days before the general election. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2023-08-09-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio\n\
 nDied 803: Irene of Athens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_of_Athens\n
 Born 1972: Bang Si-hyuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Si-hyuk\nBorn 2
 000: Buffy Chen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Chen\nDied 2025: Zhu L
 iang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Liang_%28politician%29\n\nPictured:
  Fernando Villavicencio.
SUMMARY:📅 August 9 · Edward VII\, South Kasai\, YH incident\, Dahyan ai
 rstrike\, Assassination of…
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DESCRIPTION:August 10 in history:\n• 955 – Hungarian invasions of Europ
 e: Forces under Otto the Great were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld (
 depicted) near present-day Augsburg\, Germany\, holding off the incursions
  of the Magyars into Central Europe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-0955-08-10-battle-of-lechfeld\n• 1270 – Yekuno Amlak depose
 d the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia\, beginni
 ng the reign of the Solomonic dynasty\, which would last for more than 700
  years. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1270-08-10-yekuno-
 amlak\n• 1966 – The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa\, Canada\, collapsed d
 uring its construction\, killing nine workers. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1966-08-10-heron-road-workers-memorial-bridge\n• 20
 07 – Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's
  Pier\, the Hong Kong High Court dismissed legal attempts to preserve the 
 landmark. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-08-10-queen
 -s-pier\n• 2019 – Jeffrey Epstein\, an American financier and convicte
 d sex offender\, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correction
 al Center\, New York. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019
 -08-10-death-of-jeffrey-epstein\n\nDied 1870: Joséphine Fodor https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phine_Fodor\nBorn 1890: Angus Lewis Macdonald 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_L._Macdonald\nDied 1929: Aletta Jacobs
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aletta_Jacobs\nBorn 1960: Antonio Banderas 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Banderas\n\nPictured: ''The Hungaria
 n Battle of Lechfeld 955'' by [[Michael Echter]].
SUMMARY:📅 August 10 · Battle of Lechfeld\, Yekuno Amlak\, Heron Road Wo
 rkers Memorial Bridge\, Queen's…
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DESCRIPTION:August 11 in history:\n• 1952 – King Talal of Jordan was fo
 rced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son
 \, Hussein. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1952-08-11-hus
 sein-of-jordan\n• 1975 – The Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup
  in Portuguese Timor\, starting the East Timorese civil war. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1975-08-11-east-timorese-civil-war\n•
  1977 – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiate
 d an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford Pinto to fue
 l leakage and fire in a rear-end collision. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1977-08-11-ford-pinto\n• 1992 – The Mall of America 
 (pictured) in Bloomington\, Minnesota\, opened as the largest shopping mal
 l in the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 92-08-11-mall-of-america\n\nBorn 1817: Benjamin Franklin Mudge https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Mudge\nBorn 1880: Andreas Vogt https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Vogt\nBorn 1989: Úrsula Corberó https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Arsula_Corber%C3%B3\nDied 2018: Terry A. Davis 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis\n\nPictured: Mall of America.
SUMMARY:📅 August 11 · Hussein of Jordan\, East Timorese civil war\, For
 d Pinto\, Mall of America
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
DESCRIPTION:August 12 in history:\n• 1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Rep
 ublic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg\, resulting in a hiatus in the Swedis
 h–Novgorodian Wars. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1323
 -08-12-treaty-of-noteborg\n• 1834 – A race riot in Philadelphia\, Unit
 ed States\, destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1834-08-12-1834-philadelphi
 a-race-riot\n• 1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pi
 ctured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Japan\, killing 520 of 524 peop
 le on board\, including singer Kyu Sakamoto\, in the world's deadliest sin
 gle-aircraft aviation disaster. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1985-08-12-japan-air-lines-flight-123\n• 2000 – Kursk\, an Oscar
 -class submarine of the Russian Navy\, suffered an on-board explosion and 
 sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise\, killing 118 people. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2000-08-12-kursk-submarine-
 disaster\n• 2021 – Six people\, including the perpetrator\, were kille
 d in a mass shooting in Plymouth\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-2021-08-12-plymouth-shooting\n\nDied 1315: Guy de Beauch
 amp\, 10th Earl of Warwick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Beauchamp%
 2C_10th_Earl_of_Warwick\nBorn 1861: Luigi Galleani https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Luigi_Galleani\nBorn 1965: Mohammed Deif https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Mohammed_Deif\nDied 2025: Aino Pervik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai
 no_Pervik\n\nPictured: Aircraft involved in Japan Air Lines Flight&nbsp\;1
 23.
SUMMARY:📅 August 12 · Treaty of Nöteborg\, 1834 Philadelphia race riot
 \, Japan Air Lines Flight 123\,…
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260814
DESCRIPTION:August 13 in history:\n• 582 – Maurice was crowned as Byzan
 tine emperor\, succeeding Tiberius II Constantine. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-0582-08-13-maurice-emperor\n• 1650 – General 
 George Monck founded Monck's Regiment of Foot\, the predecessor to the Col
 dstream Guards\, the oldest regular regiment of the British Army in contin
 uous active service. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1650-
 08-13-coldstream-guards\n• 1876 – A performance of Das Rheingold (scen
 e pictured) opened the first performance of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at
  the inaugural Bayreuth Festival\, attended by emperors and other composer
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1876-08-13-das-rheingol
 d\n• 1918 – Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the U
 nited States Marine Corps. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1918-08-13-opha-may-johnson\n• 2010 – After being boarded by Canadian
  authorities\, MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lanka
 n Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed in detention. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-08-13-mv-sun-sea-incident\n\nBorn 
 1820: George Grove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grove\nDied 1965: 
 Hayato Ikeda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayato_Ikeda\nBorn 1982: Sebast
 ian Stan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Stan\nDied 2000: Nazia Ha
 ssan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazia_Hassan\n\nPictured: Scene from th
 e 1876 production of ''Das Rheingold''.
SUMMARY:📅 August 13 · Maurice (emperor)\, Coldstream Guards\, Das Rhein
 gold\, Opha May Johnson\, MV Sun…
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DESCRIPTION:August 14 in history:\n• 1720 – The Spanish Villasur expedi
 tion\, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the Great Plai
 ns of North America\, ended in failure when it was ambushed by Pawnee and 
 Otoe forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1720-08-14-vi
 llasur-expedition\n• 1888 – One of the first recordings of music\, of 
 Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord"\, was played at a press conference in L
 ondon to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1888-08-14-the-lost-chord\n• 1945 – Kenji Hatanak
 a (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted co
 up d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1945-08-14-kyujo-incident\n• 2005 – Helios Airways
  Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon\, Greece\, killing a
 ll 121 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-20
 05-08-14-helios-airways-flight-522\n• 2007 – Four coordinated suicide 
 bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera\
 , Iraq\, killing 796 people and wounding 1\,562 others. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-08-14-qahtaniyah-bombings\n\nBorn 1502:
  Pieter Coecke van Aelst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Coecke_van_A
 elst\nBorn 1929: Louise Slaughter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Sla
 ughter\nBorn 2002: HueningKai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HueningKai\nDi
 ed 2011: Shammi Kapoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shammi_Kapoor\n\nPict
 ured: Kenji Hatanaka.
SUMMARY:📅 August 14 · Villasur expedition\, The Lost Chord\, Kyūjō in
 cident\, Helios Airways Flight…
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DESCRIPTION:August 15 in history:\n• 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos wa
 s crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1261-08-15-michael-viii-palaiologos\n• 1909 – A m
 ilitary coup against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the neigh
 bourhood of Goudi in Athens\, Greece. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1909-08-15-goudi-coup\n• 1941 – Josef Jakobs\, a German sp
 y\, became the last person executed at the Tower of London. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-08-15-josef-jakobs\n• 1948 – Th
 e Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first preside
 nt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1948-08-15-syngman-rhe
 e\n• 1977 – Big Ear\, a radio telescope at Ohio State University\, rec
 eived a strong\, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that became know
 n as the Wow! signal (printout pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1977-08-15-wow-signal\n\nDied 1496: Isabella of Portugal\,
  Queen of Castile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Portugal%2C_Qu
 een_of_Castile\nDied 1953: Ludwig Prandtl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu
 dwig_Prandtl\nBorn 1975: Brendan Morrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br
 endan_Morrison\nBorn 1978: Waleed Aly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waleed
 _Aly\n\nPictured: Wow! signal.
SUMMARY:📅 August 15 · Michael VIII Palaiologos\, Goudi coup\, Josef Jak
 obs\, Syngman Rhee\, Wow! signal
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DESCRIPTION:August 16 in history:\n• 1891 – San Sebastian Church (pictu
 red)\, an all-iron church in Manila\, was officially consecrated. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1891-08-16-san-sebastian-church-ma
 nila\n• 1896 – A group including George Carmack and Skookum Jim Mason 
 discovered gold near Dawson City\, Canada\, setting off the Klondike Gold 
 Rush. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1896-08-16-klondike-
 gold-rush\n• 1900 – Second Boer War: A 10\,000-strong column of soldie
 rs led by Lord Kitchener broke a 13-day siege of a small garrison. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1900-08-16-battle-of-elands-river
 -1900\n• 1906 – An earthquake registering approximately 8.2 Mw struck 
 Valparaíso\, Chile\, killing 3\,882 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1906-08-16-1906-valparaiso-earthquake\n• 1986 – Typ
 hoon Wayne formed over the South China Sea\, going on to become one of the
  longest-lived tropical cyclones in the north-western Pacific\, lasting 21
  days. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1986-08-16-typhoon-
 wayne-1986\n\nDied 1861: Ranavalona I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranava
 lona_I\nBorn 1902: Georgette Heyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgette
 _Heyer\nBorn 2001: Jannik Sinner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannik_Sinn
 er\nDied 2008: Dorival Caymmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorival_Caymmi
 \n\nPictured: San Sebastian Church in Manila.
SUMMARY:📅 August 16 · San Sebastian Church (Manila)\, Klondike Gold Rus
 h\, Battle of Elands River…
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DESCRIPTION:August 17 in history:\n• 1676 – Scanian War: Swedish forces
  defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1676-08-17-battle-of-halmstad\n• 1876 – The p
 remiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first
  Bayreuth Festival. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1876-0
 8-17-gotterdammerung\n• 1915 – A category 4 hurricane made landfall in
  Galveston\, Texas\, leaving at least 275 people dead. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1915-08-17-1915-galveston-hurricane\n• 1943
  – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a secret conferenc
 e in Quebec. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-08-17-fi
 rst-quebec-conference\n• 1945 – The independence of Indonesia was proc
 laimed\, igniting a revolution against the Dutch Empire. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-08-17-proclamation-of-indonesian-indep
 endence\n\nDied 949: Li Shouzhen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shouzhen
 \nBorn 1936: Margaret Hamilton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hami
 lton_%28software_engineer%29\nBorn 1991: Austin Butler https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Austin_Butler\nBorn 2001: Kim Kum Yong https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Kim_Kum_Yong\n\nPictured: Richard Wagner.
SUMMARY:📅 August 17 · Battle of Halmstad\, Götterdämmerung\, 1915 Gal
 veston hurricane\, First Quebec…
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DESCRIPTION:August 18 in history:\n• 1783 – A meteor procession blazed 
 across the night sky over Great Britain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1783-08-18-1783-great-meteor\n• 1891 – A hurricane stru
 ck the Caribbean island of Martinique\, killing about 700 people\, injurin
 g at least 1\,000 others\, and causing severe damage. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1891-08-18-1891-martinique-hurricane\n• 1920
  – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratifi
 ed\, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1920-08-18-nineteenth-amendment-to-the-united-sta
 te\n• 1966 – Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Au
 stralian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the B
 attle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured)\, but held them off for several ho
 urs until reinforcements arrived. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1966-08-18-6th-battalion-royal-australian-regiment\n• 2008 – P
 akistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movemen
 t to impeach him. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-08-
 18-effort-to-impeach-pervez-musharraf\n\nDied 1890: Mother Solomon https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Solomon\nBorn 1986: Evan Gattis https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Gattis\nBorn 1998: Nick Fuentes https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Nick_Fuentes\nDied 2016: Machali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Machali_%28tigress%29\n\nPictured: border=yes.
SUMMARY:📅 August 18 · 1783 Great Meteor\, 1891 Martinique hurricane\, N
 ineteenth Amendment to the…
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DESCRIPTION:August 19 in history:\n• 1759 – Seven Years' War: Having da
 maged several French vessels\, British ships pursued the remainder of the 
 fleet to Lagos\, Portugal\, and continued the battle there in violation of
  Portuguese neutrality. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-17
 59-08-19-battle-of-lagos\n• 1905 – In a ceremony officiated by Albert 
 Grey\, 4th Earl Grey\, The Luck of Cumberland (pictured) was presented to.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1905-08-19-the-luck-of-cu
 mberland\n• 1950 – The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Ko
 rea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the Korean Wa
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-08-19-766th-indepe
 ndent-infantry-regiment-nort\n• 2002 – Second Chechen War: A Russian M
 il Mi-26 was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-d
 efense system near Khankala\, killing 127 people in the deadliest helicopt
 er crash in history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2002-
 08-19-2002-khankala-mi-26-crash\n• 2017 – Around 250\,000 farmed non-n
 ative Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypres
 s Island\, Washington. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-201
 7-08-19-cypress-island-atlantic-salmon-pen-break\n\nBorn 1883: Coco Chanel
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel\nBorn 1946: Bill Clinton https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton\nDied 1980: Otto Frank https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank\nDied 2008: Levy Mwanawasa https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Levy_Mwanawasa\n\nPictured: ''The Luck of Cumberland''.
SUMMARY:📅 August 19 · Battle of Lagos\, The Luck of Cumberland\, 766th 
 Independent Infantry Regiment…
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DESCRIPTION:August 20 in history:\n• 1710 – War of the Spanish Successi
 on: A Spanish Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly def
 eated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemb
 erg. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1710-08-20-battle-of-
 saragossa\n• 1920 – The American Professional Football Conference\, a 
 predecessor of the National Football League\, was established in Canton\, 
 Ohio. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-08-20-national-
 football-league\n• 1988 – More than 150\,000 acres (610 km2) were burn
 ed on the worst day of the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yel
 lowstone National Park in the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1988-08-20-yellowstone-fires-of-1988\n• 1989 – The 
 final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide\, South Australia\, was finis
 hed\, completing at the time the world's longest and fastest guided busway
 \, with buses (example pictured) travelling 12 km (7.5 mi) at speeds of up
  to 100 km/h (62 mph). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-198
 9-08-20-o-bahn-busway\n• 2018 – Silent Sam\, a Confederate monument on
  the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, was toppl
 ed by protestors. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2018-08-
 20-silent-sam\n\nBorn 1775: George Tucker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge
 orge_Tucker_%28author%29\nBorn 1935: Ron Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Ron_Paul\nDied 2012: Mika Yamamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Ya
 mamoto\nDied 2014: B. K. S. Iyengar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._K._S.
 _Iyengar\n\nPictured: Bus on the {{nowrap.
SUMMARY:📅 August 20 · Battle of Saragossa\, National Football League\, 
 Yellowstone fires of 1988\,…
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DESCRIPTION:August 21 in history:\n• 1717 – Austro-Turkish War: Austria
 n troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important
  city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1717-08-21-siege-of-belgrade-1717\n• 1808 – Peninsula
 r War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasi
 on of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1808-08-21-battle-of-vimeiro\n• 1942 – World War II: Th
 e Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru\, the first of its 
 three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-08-21-battle-of-the-tenaru\n• 19
 63 – South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu\, the brot
 her of President Ngô Đình Diệm\, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagod
 as (one pictured) across the country\, arresting thousands and leaving hun
 dreds dead. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-08-21-xa-
 l-i-pagoda-raids\n• 2015 – Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam
  to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-08-21-2015-thalys-t
 rain-attack\n\nDied 1131: Baldwin II of Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Baldwin_II_of_Jerusalem\nBorn 1625: John Claypole https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/John_Claypole\nDied 1947: Ettore Bugatti https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Ettore_Bugatti\nBorn 1993: Millie Bright https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Millie_Bright\n\nPictured: [[Xá Lợi Pagoda]]\, raided by South Vi
 etnamese special forces.
SUMMARY:📅 August 21 · Siege of Belgrade (1717)\, Battle of Vimeiro\, Ba
 ttle of the Tenaru\, Xá Lợi…
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DESCRIPTION:August 22 in history:\n• 1485 – At the Battle of Bosworth F
 ield\, Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor\, Earl of Richmond\, defeated 
 Yorkist forces under Richard III of England\, decisively ending the Wars o
 f the Roses. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1485-08-22-ba
 ttle-of-bosworth-field\n• 1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt t
 o attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1711-08-22-quebec-expedit
 ion-1711\n• 1851 – The yacht America won the race for the Cup of One H
 undred Sovereigns (trophy pictured)\, later renamed the America's Cup\, ne
 ar the Isle of Wight\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1851-08-22-1851-america-s-cup\n• 1985 – A fire broke out on Brit
 ish Airtours Flight 28M at Manchester Airport\, causing 55 deaths mostly d
 ue to smoke inhalation\, and leading to changes to make aircraft evacuatio
 n more effective. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-08-
 22-1985-manchester-airport-disaster\n• 2003 – Roy Moore\, Alabama's ch
 ief justice\, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal c
 ourt order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the l
 obby of the Supreme Court of Alabama building. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2003-08-22-roy-moore\n\nDied 1553: John Dudley\, 1st 
 Duke of Northumberland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dudley%2C_1st_Du
 ke_of_Northumberland\nBorn 1880: George Herriman https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/George_Herriman\nDied 1904: Kate Chopin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Kate_Chopin\nBorn 1997: Lautaro Martínez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
 autaro_Mart%C3%ADnez\n\nPictured: America's Cup.
SUMMARY:📅 August 22 · Battle of Bosworth Field\, Quebec expedition (171
 1)\, 1851 America's Cup\, 1985…
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DESCRIPTION:August 23 in history:\n• 1305 – William Wallace\, a leader 
 of Scottish resistance against England during the Wars of Scottish Indepen
 dence\, was hanged\, drawn and quartered. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1305-08-23-william-wallace\n• 1775 – King George III i
 ssued a proclamation that declared elements of the American colonies of Gr
 eat Britain to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion". /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1775-08-23-proclamation-of-rebellion\n
 • 1960 – Congo Crisis: In order to stop the secession of South Kasai f
 rom the Republic of Congo\, Armée Nationale Congolaise forces launched an
  invasion of South Kasai. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1960-08-23-south-kasai\n• 2006 – Natascha Kampusch (pictured)\, who ha
 d been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna\, escaped from her captor's ho
 use in Strasshof an der Nordbahn after more than eight years in captivity.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-08-23-natascha-kampu
 sch\n• 2011 – A 5.8 MW earthquake struck the Piedmont region of Virgin
 ia\, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-08-23-2011-virginia-eart
 hquake\n\nBorn 1882: Volin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volin\nDied 1887:
  Sarah Yorke Jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Yorke_Jackson\nBo
 rn 1950: Bah Ndaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah_Ndaw\nBorn 1996: Alejo
  Igoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejo_Igoa\n\nPictured: Natascha Kampu
 sch.
SUMMARY:📅 August 23 · William Wallace\, Proclamation of Rebellion\, inv
 asion of South Kasai\, Natascha…
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DESCRIPTION:August 24 in history:\n• 1643 – A Dutch expedition (depicte
 d) arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River\, in present-day Chile\, to 
 establish a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of
  Valdivia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1643-08-24-dutc
 h-expedition-to-valdivia\n• 1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded
  Washington\, D.C.\, setting fire to various U.S. government buildings\, i
 ncluding the White House. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1814-08-24-burning-of-washington\n• 1942 – World War II: At the Battle
  of the Eastern Solomons\, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga
  sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island\, con
 tributing to an Allied victory. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1942-08-24-battle-of-the-eastern-solomons\n• 1992 – Hurricane An
 drew\, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United Stat
 es in the 20th century\, made landfall in southern Florida. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1992-08-24-hurricane-andrew\n\nBorn 1977
 : John Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Green\nDied 2021: Charlie 
 Watts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Watts\nDied 2025: Verónica Ec
 hegui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Echegui\n\nPictured: Dut
 ch expedition to Valdivia.
SUMMARY:📅 August 24 · Dutch expedition to Valdivia\, Burning of Washing
 ton\, Battle of the Eastern…
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DESCRIPTION:August 25 in history:\n• 1258 – George Mouzalon\, the regen
 t of the Empire of Nicaea\, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led b
 y nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1258-08-25-george-mouzalon\n• 1835 –
  The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax\, publishing articles ab
 out the supposed discovery of life on the Moon (lithograph pictured). /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1835-08-25-great-moon-hoax\n
 • 1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium\, German t
 roops burned the town's Catholic university\, destroying hundreds of medie
 val manuscripts. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-08-2
 5-sack-of-louvain\n• 2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several member
 s of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed
  shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-08-25-aaliyah\n• 2011 – M
 exican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casi
 no in Monterrey\, Mexico. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 2011-08-25-2011-monterrey-casino-attack\n\nDied 1711: Edward Villiers\, 1s
 t Earl of Jersey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Villiers%2C_1st_Earl
 _of_Jersey\nBorn 1923: Joseph Beyrle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_
 Beyrle\nBorn 1984: Hendra Setiawan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_Se
 tiawan\nDied 2010: Esther Earl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Earl\n
 \nPictured: Lithograph depicting contents in the [[Great Moon Hoax]].
SUMMARY:📅 August 25 · George Mouzalon\, Great Moon Hoax\, Sack of Louva
 in\, Aaliyah\, 2011 Monterrey…
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DESCRIPTION:August 26 in history:\n• 1071 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Se
 ljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV at the 
 Battle of Manzikert\, marking a decline in Byzantine fortunes. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1071-08-26-battle-of-manzikert\n• 1
 826 – Quincy Market (pictured) in Boston\, Massachusetts\, opened as a r
 eplacement for an overcrowded market in Faneuil Hall. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1826-08-26-quincy-market\n• 1914 – World W
 ar I: As the British Expeditionary Force and French Fifth Army began their
  retreat from Mons\, the British II Corps delayed the pursuing Germans at 
 the Battle of Le Cateau long enough for the main force to escape. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-08-26-battle-of-le-cateau\n
 • 1928 – At a cafe in Paisley\, Scotland\, a woman found the remains o
 f a snail in her bottle of ginger beer\, giving rise to the landmark civil
 -action case Donoghue v Stevenson. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1928-08-26-donoghue-v-stevenson\n• 1978 – A conclave elected 
 Albino Luciani as Pope John Paul I\, succeeding Paul VI. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1978-08-26-august-1978-conclave\n\nDied 182
 6: Lady Sarah Napier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Sarah_Napier\nBorn
  1918: Katherine Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson\n
 Born 1954: Kamil Idris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil_Idris\nDied 195
 8: Ralph Vaughan Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Will
 iams\n\nPictured: Quincy Market.
SUMMARY:📅 August 26 · Battle of Manzikert\, Quincy Market\, Battle of L
 e Cateau\, Donoghue v Stevenson\,…
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DESCRIPTION:August 27 in history:\n• 1656 – The Netherlands and the Aha
 nta people signed the Treaty of Butre\, creating a Dutch protectorate over
  the country of Upper Ahanta in modern-day Ghana. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1656-08-27-treaty-of-butre\n• 1859 – Edwin Dra
 ke successfully drilled for oil in Titusville\, Pennsylvania\, resulting i
 n the Pennsylvania oil rush\, the first oil boom in the United States. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1859-08-27-pennsylvania-oil-r
 ush\n• 1896 – In the shortest recorded war in history\, the Sultanate 
 of Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of c
 onflict. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1896-08-27-anglo-
 zanzibar-war\n• 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashed (wreckage pictured) 
 while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Blue G
 rass Airport in Lexington\, Kentucky\, killing 49 of the 50 people on boar
 d\, and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to modify air traffic 
 control rules. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2006-08-27-
 comair-flight-5191\n• 2013 – Religious violence between Hindus and Mus
 lims erupted in Muzaffarnagar district\, Uttar Pradesh\, India\, leaving 6
 2 people dead. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-08-27-
 2013-muzaffarnagar-riots\n\nDied 1521: Josquin des Prez /travel/calendars/
 composers/events/composers-josquin-des-prez-q143100\nBorn 1795: Giorgio Mi
 trovich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Mitrovich\nBorn 1886: Rebecc
 a Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Clarke_%28composer%29\nBorn
  2001: Zhang Zifeng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zifeng\n\nPictured
 : Wreckage of Comair Flight 5191.
SUMMARY:📅 August 27 · Treaty of Butre\, Pennsylvania oil rush\, Anglo-Z
 anzibar War\, Comair Flight…
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DESCRIPTION:August 28 in history:\n• 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Cov
 enanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newb
 urn\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1640-08-28-
 battle-of-newburn\n• 1789 – With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 f
 t) telescope\, then the largest in the world\, William Herschel discovered
  a new moon of Saturn\, later named Enceladus (pictured). /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1789-08-28-enceladus\n• 1909 – The 190
 9 Monterrey hurricane dissipated\; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical 
 cyclones on record\, it killed an estimated 4\,000 people throughout Mexic
 o. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1909-08-28-1909-monterr
 ey-hurricane\n• 1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King
  Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington\
 , calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United
  States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-08-28-i-have
 -a-dream\n• 1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 24
 3 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid mo
 on. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1993-08-28-243-ida\n\n
 Died 919: He Gui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Gui\nDied 1646: Johannes
  Banfi Hunyades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Banfi_Hunyades\nBor
 n 1954: Katharine Abraham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Abraham\
 nBorn 1971: Alex Polizzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Polizzi\n\nPic
 tured: [[Enceladus]] imaged by the ''[[Cassini–Huygens.
SUMMARY:📅 August 28 · Battle of Newburn\, Enceladus\, 1909 Monterrey hu
 rricane\, I Have a Dream\, 243 Ida
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DESCRIPTION:August 29 in history:\n• 1786 – Angered by high tax burdens
  and disfranchisement\, farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Sha
 ys began an armed uprising against the U.S. federal government. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1786-08-29-daniel-shays\n• 1903 
 – Slava (pictured)\, the last of five Borodino-class battleships\, was l
 aunched by the Imperial Russian Navy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1903-08-29-russian-battleship-slava\n• 1916 – Congress pas
 sed the Philippine Autonomy Act\, the first formal and official declaratio
 n of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1916-08-29-jones-law-philippine
 s\n• 1984 – Followers of Osho began deliberately infecting people in T
 he Dalles\, Oregon\, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist
  attack in United States history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1984-08-29-1984-rajneeshee-bioterror-attack\n• 2007 – Six nucl
 ear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy b
 omber that flew from North Dakota to Louisiana. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-2007-08-29-2007-united-states-air-force-nuclear-wea\
 n\nDied 1769: Edmond Hoyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Hoyle\nBor
 n 1859: Louis Adrian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Adrian\nBorn 1980
 : Nicholas Tse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Tse\nDied 2010: Jule
 s Loh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Loh\n\nPictured: ''Slava''.
SUMMARY:📅 August 29 · Daniel Shays\, Russian battleship Slava\, Jones L
 aw (Philippines)\, 1984…
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DESCRIPTION:August 30 in history:\n• 1800 – Gabriel Prosser planned to 
 hold a slave rebellion in Virginia\, U.S.\, but it was postponed due to ra
 in\; he was captured before he could reschedule it. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1800-08-30-gabriel-s-rebellion\n• 1896 – Phi
 lippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte\, the first real b
 attle of the war\, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazin
 e before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1896-08-30-battle-of-san-juan-del-monte\n• 1942 
 – British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against 
 their Japanese captors\, who required them to pledge not to escape. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-08-30-selarang-barracks-inc
 ident\n• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-A
 merican Supreme Court justice. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1967-08-30-thurgood-marshall\n• 1974 – A bomb exploded at the Mit
 subishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi\, Tokyo\, killing eigh
 t people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-08-30-1974-
 mitsubishi-heavy-industries-bombing\n• 2025 – Ukrainian politician And
 riy Parubiy (pictured) was assassinated in Lviv\, Ukraine. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2025-08-30-andriy-parubiy\n\nBorn 1899: F
 rieda Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Fraser\nBorn 1972: Pavel
  Nedvěd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Nedv%C4%9Bd\nDied 2022: Mikha
 il Gorbachev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev\n\nPictured: 
 [[Andriy Parubiy]].
SUMMARY:📅 August 30 · Gabriel's Rebellion\, Battle of San Juan del Mont
 e\, Selarang Barracks incident\,…
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DESCRIPTION:August 31 in history:\n• 1218 – Al-Kamil became the fourth 
 sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1218-08-31-al-kamil\n• 1814 – War of 1812: American mili
 tia forces repelled a British force at the Battle of Caulk's Field\, killi
 ng 41 people\, including Captain Peter Parker of the Royal Navy. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1814-08-31-battle-of-caulk-s-field\
 n• 1886 – The 7.0 Charleston earthquake struck southeastern South Caro
 lina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme)\, killing 60 people 
 and causing damage worth an estimated $5–6 million. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1886-08-31-1886-charleston-earthquake\n• 189
 7 – Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope (pictured)\, 
 a precursor to the modern movie projector. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1897-08-31-kinetoscope\n• 2019 – A sightseeing helico
 pter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta\, Norway\, killing al
 l six people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-201
 9-08-31-2019-alta-helicopter-crash\n\nBorn 1775: Agnes Bulmer https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Bulmer\nDied 1867: Charles Baudelaire https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire\nDied 1922: Dogsomyn Bodoo https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogsomyn_Bodoo\nBorn 1986: Feng Tianwei https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Tianwei\n\nPictured: Interior view of Kinetoscope wit
 h peephole viewer.
SUMMARY:📅 August 31 · Al-Kamil\, Battle of Caulk's Field\, 1886 Charles
 ton earthquake\, Kinetoscope\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 1 in history:\n• 1862 – American Civil War: Confe
 derate forces attacked retreating troops (map shown) of the Union army dur
 ing a rainstorm in Chantilly\, Virginia\, but the battle ended inconclusiv
 ely. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1862-09-01-battle-of-
 chantilly\n• 1911 – Construction began on the Saline Valley salt tram\
 , which during its operation was the steepest tram in the United States. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-09-01-saline-valley-sa
 lt-tram\n• 1939 – German forces attacked multiple locations in Poland\
 , including Wieluń and Westerplatte\, starting World War II in Europe. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-09-01-bombing-of-wielun
 \n• 1966 – Rioting erupted in Dayton\, Ohio\, resulting in one death a
 nd the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1966-09-01-1966-dayton-race-riot\n• 1973 – A 76-
 hour multinational rescue effort off the coast of Ireland resulted in the 
 deepest sub rescue in history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1973-09-01-rescue-of-roger-mallinson-and-roger-chap\n\nBorn 1878: Pri
 ncess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pri
 ncess_Alexandra_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha\nBorn 1926: Abdur Rahman Biswas h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdur_Rahman_Biswas\nBorn 1946: Barry Gibb ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gibb\nDied 1981: Albert Speer https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer\n\nPictured: Battle of Chantilly map.
SUMMARY:📅 September 1 · Battle of Chantilly\, Saline Valley salt tram\,
  Bombing of Wieluń\, 1966 Dayton…
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DESCRIPTION:September 2 in history:\n• 1789 – The United States Departm
 ent of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new na
 tion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1789-09-02-united-st
 ates-department-of-the-treasury\n• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussia
 n forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan\, which led to the c
 ollapse of the Second French Empire within days. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1870-09-02-battle-of-sedan\n• 1901 – U.S. vice 
 president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly 
 and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair\, de
 scribing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously thr
 eatening to use military force. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1901-09-02-big-stick-ideology\n• 1946 – The interim government o
 f India\, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru\, was formed to assist the transition
  of India from British rule to independence. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1946-09-02-interim-government-of-india\n• 1998 – A 
 fire in the cockpit on Swissair Flight 111\, en route from New York City t
 o Geneva\, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean near Canad
 a\, killing all 229 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1998-09-02-swissair-flight-111\n\nDied 421: Constantius III htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_III\nBorn 1893: Mary Cecil Allen ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cecil_Allen\nBorn 1908: Monte Pearson htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Pearson\nDied 1962: Joshua Soule Zimmerma
 n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Soule_Zimmerman\n\nPictured: Editor
 ial cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt carrying a big stick.
SUMMARY:📅 September 2 · United States Department of the Treasury\, Batt
 le of Sedan\, Big stick ideology\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 3 in history:\n• 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria w
 as concluded between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman prince Musa Ç
 elebi. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1411-09-03-treaty-o
 f-selymbria\n• 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah\, British r
 acing motorist Malcolm Campbell (pictured) became the first person to driv
 e an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h). /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1935-09-03-malcolm-campbell\n• 1941 – The mass expulsio
 n of Soviet Germans from the Volga German ASSR began. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1941-09-03-deportation-of-soviet-germans-1941-
 1942\n• 2017 – North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nucle
 ar test at Punggye-ri\, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2017-09-03-2017-north-korean-nuclear-tes
 t\n\nDied 1634: Edward Coke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke\nBor
 n 1933: Paddy Fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Fox\nBorn 1993: Domi
 nic Thiem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Thiem\nDied 2001: Pauline 
 Kael https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael\n\nPictured: Malcolm Campb
 ell.
SUMMARY:📅 September 3 · Treaty of Selymbria\, Malcolm Campbell\, Deport
 ation of Soviet Germans…
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DESCRIPTION:September 4 in history:\n• 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer ca
 ptured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus\, marking the fall of 
 the Western Roman Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 0476-09-04-odoacer\n• 1666 – The most destructive damage from the Grea
 t Fire of London (depicted) occurred. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1666-09-04-great-fire-of-london\n• 1912 – The Albanian rev
 olt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' d
 emands. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1912-09-04-albania
 n-revolt-of-1912\n• 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chin
 atown\, San Francisco\, United States\, leaving five people dead and spurr
 ing police to end Chinese gang violence in the city. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1977-09-04-golden-dragon-massacre\n• 1995 –
  Three U.S. servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa\, Japan\, raped
  a 12-year-old girl\, after kidnapping\, beating\, and torturing her. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-09-04-1995-okinawa-rape-i
 ncident\n\nPictured: A 1675 depiction of the 1666 Great Fire.
SUMMARY:📅 September 4 · Odoacer\, Great Fire of London\, Albanian revol
 t of 1912\, Golden Dragon…
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DESCRIPTION:September 5 in history:\n• 1367 – Swa Saw Ke became the rul
 er of the Kingdom of Ava in Upper Myanmar. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1367-09-05-swa-saw-ke\n• 1915 – The Casablanca Fair (
 poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1915-09-05-casablanca-fair-of-1915\n
 • 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed 
 at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-09-05-landing-at-nadzab\n• 1977 
 – NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1\, currently the farthest space
 craft from Earth\, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Stat
 ion. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1977-09-05-voyager-1\
 n• 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashed shortly after take-off i
 n Indonesia due to pilot error\, killing 100 out of the 117 people on boar
 d along with 49 more on the ground. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-2005-09-05-mandala-airlines-flight-091\n\nBorn 1874: Nap Lajoie 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap_Lajoie\nBorn 1926: Carmen Petra Basacopo
 l https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Petra_Basacopol\nBorn 1946: Freddie
  Mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury\nDied 2023: Adam Ex
 ner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Exner\n\nPictured: Casablanca Fair 
 poster.
SUMMARY:📅 September 5 · Swa Saw Ke\, Casablanca Fair of 1915\, Landing 
 at Nadzab\, Voyager 1\, Mandala…
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DESCRIPTION:September 6 in history:\n• 1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent\
 , the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire\, died at the age of 7
 1. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1566-09-06-suleiman-the
 -magnificent\n• 1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen
 \, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant force
 s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1634-09-06-battle-of-no
 rdlingen-1634\n• 1916 – The first self-service grocery store\, Piggly 
 Wiggly\, was founded in Memphis\, Tennessee\, U.S. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1916-09-06-piggly-wiggly\n• 1976 – Soviet pil
 ot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate\, Japan\, declaring his in
 tention to defect to the West. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1976-09-06-viktor-belenko\n• 2022 – Liz Truss (pictured) succeede
 d Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom g
 overnment crisis. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2022-09-
 06-liz-truss\n\nPictured: Liz Truss.
SUMMARY:📅 September 6 · Suleiman the Magnificent\, Battle of Nördlinge
 n (1634)\, Piggly Wiggly\, Viktor…
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DESCRIPTION:September 7 in history:\n• 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formo
 sa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed 
 four days later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1652-09-0
 7-guo-huaiyi-rebellion\n• 1822 – Pedro I declared the independence of 
 Brazil from Portugal\, establishing the Empire of Brazil (flag pictured). 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1822-09-07-empire-of-brazi
 l\n• 1936 – The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo\, Austr
 alia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-09-07-thylacine
 \n• 1986 – Desmond Tutu became the first black leader of the Anglican 
 Church of Southern Africa. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1986-09-07-desmond-tutu\n• 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Gre
 nada\, devastating at least 85 per cent of buildings on the island. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2004-09-07-hurricane-ivan\n\nDie
 d 1303: Gregory Bicskei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bicskei\nDie
 d 1601: John Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shakespeare\nB
 orn 1960: Ersin Tatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersin_Tatar\nBorn 1994
 : Elinor Barker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Barker\n\nPictured: F
 lag of Brazil from 1822 to 1853.
SUMMARY:📅 September 7 · Guo Huaiyi rebellion\, Empire of Brazil\, thyla
 cine\, Desmond Tutu\, Hurricane Ivan
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DESCRIPTION:September 8 in history:\n• 1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: 
 Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Sz
 igetvár in Hungary\, but were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1566-09-08-siege-of-szig
 etvar\n• 1726 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Geist und Seel
 e wird verwirret\, a solo cantata for alto voice. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1726-09-08-geist-und-seele-wird-verwirret-bwv-35\n
 • 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Led by Napoleon\, French forces de
 feated the Austrians at the Battle of Bassano in Veneto\, Italy. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1796-09-08-battle-of-bassano\n• 1
 966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge (pictured)\, linking S
 outh Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in Wales. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1966-09-08-severn-bridge\n• 1974 – W
 atergate scandal: U.S. president Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned pr
 edecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for 
 any crimes he committed while in office. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1974-09-08-pardon-of-richard-nixon\n\nDied 1478: Seraphina 
 Sforza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphina_Sforza\nBorn 1876: Inez Kni
 ght Allen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inez_Knight_Allen\nBorn 1925: Pete
 r Sellers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers\nDied 1969: Alexandr
 a David-Néel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el\n\nP
 ictured: Severn Bridge.
SUMMARY:📅 September 8 · Siege of Szigetvár\, Geist und Seele wird verw
 irret\, BWV 35\, Battle of Bassano\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 9 in history:\n• 1791 – The commissioners oversee
 ing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it Washi
 ngton\, in honor of the first president. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1791-09-09-washington-d-c\n• 1892 – At the Lick Observa
 tory in California\, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea\, a moon o
 f Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observ
 ation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1892-09-09-amalthea
 -moon\n• 1939 – World War II: About 3\,000 Polish Army troops began a 
 nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion 
 of Poland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-09-09-batt
 le-of-hel\n• 1962 – French president Charles de Gaulle delivered his "
 speech to the German youth" to 20\,000 people in the courtyard of Ludwigsb
 urg Palace (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-196
 2-09-09-ludwigsburg-palace\n• 1999 – The first banknotes of the Portra
 it Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissi
 oners of Currency. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1999-09
 -09-singapore-portrait-series-currency-notes\n\nDied 1611: Eleanor de' Med
 ici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_de%27_Medici\nBorn 1960: Hugh Gr
 ant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant\nBorn 1985: Luka Modrić http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Modri%C4%87\n\nPictured: Ludwigsburg Palace
  courtyard.
SUMMARY:📅 September 9 · Washington\, D.C.\, Amalthea (moon)\, Battle of
  Hel\, Ludwigsburg Palace\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 10 in history:\n• 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: Eng
 lish forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh\, 
 Lothian\, Scotland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1547-0
 9-10-battle-of-pinkie\n• 1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza\, G
 erman driver Wolfgang von Trips car collided with another\, causing it to 
 become airborne and crash into a side barrier\, killing him and 15 spectat
 ors. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-09-10-wolfgang-v
 on-trips\n• 1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our L
 ady of Peace\, one of the largest churches in the world\, in Yamoussoukro\
 , Ivory Coast. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-09-10-
 basilica-of-our-lady-of-peace\n• 2017 – Hurricane Irma made landfall o
 n Cudjoe Key\, Florida\, as a Category 4\, after causing catastrophic dama
 ge throughout the Caribbean. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-2017-09-10-hurricane-irma\n• 2025 – American political activist Cha
 rlie Kirk (pictured) was shot and killed at an event at Utah Valley Univer
 sity. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2025-09-10-assassina
 tion-of-charlie-kirk\n\nBorn 1787: John J. Crittenden https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/John_J._Crittenden\nBorn 1866: Jeppe Aakjær https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Jeppe_Aakj%C3%A6r\nBorn 1901: Ho Feng-Shan https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Ho_Feng-Shan\nBorn 1941: Stephen Jay Gould https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould\n\nPictured: Charlie Kirk.
SUMMARY:📅 September 10 · Battle of Pinkie\, Wolfgang von Trips\, Basili
 ca of Our Lady of Peace\, Hurricane…
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DESCRIPTION:September 11 in history:\n• 1776 – British and American lea
 ders held a peace conference on Staten Island\, New York\, in the hopes of
  bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-09-11-staten-island-peace-conferenc
 e\n• 1789 – Alexander Hamilton (pictured)\, co-writer of The Federalis
 t Papers\, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1789-09-11-alexander-hamilton\n• 1851 
 – In a fight near Christiana\, Pennsylvania\, a group of escaped slaves 
 and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking t
 o arrest and return the escapees to slavery. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1851-09-11-christiana-riot\n• 1945 – The Japanese-r
 un camp at Batu Lintang in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Divi
 sion\, averting the planned massacre of its 2\,000-plus Allied POWs and ci
 vilian internees by four days. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1945-09-11-batu-lintang-camp\n• 2025 – Former Brazilian president
  Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his involvement in
  a coup plot. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2025-09-11-j
 air-bolsonaro\n\nBorn 1724: Johann Bernhard Basedow https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Johann_Bernhard_Basedow\nBorn 1806: Paul Nahaolelua https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nahaolelua\nBorn 1982: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya\nDied 2024: Alberto Fuji
 mori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori\n\nPictured: Alexander
  Hamilton.
SUMMARY:📅 September 11 · Staten Island Peace Conference\, Alexander Ham
 ilton\, Christiana Riot\, Batu…
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DESCRIPTION:September 12 in history:\n• 379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I (depicte
 d) took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0379-09-12-yax-nuun-ahiin-i\n• 
 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8\, one of the largest-scale choral 
 works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symp
 hony of a Thousand"\, was first performed in Munich. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1910-09-12-symphony-no-8-mahler\n• 1928 – T
 he Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe\; eventually
  it reached the United States and caused over 4\,000 deaths overall. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1928-09-12-1928-okeechobee-hurr
 icane\n• 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods\, West Virginia\, U.S.\, repor
 ted seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating 
 a UFO. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1952-09-12-flatwood
 s-monster\n• 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining det
 onators in Petlawad\, India\, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 
 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-09-12-petlawa
 d-explosion\n\nDied 1185: Andronikos I Komnenos https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Andronikos_I_Komnenos\nDied 1876: Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Anton_Alexander_von_Auersperg\nBorn 19
 65: Joe Schmidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt_%28rugby_union%2
 9\nBorn 1996: Joshua Cheptegei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chepte
 gei\n\nPictured: Portrait of Yax Nuun Ahiin I.
SUMMARY:📅 September 12 · Yax Nuun Ahiin I\, Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)\, 1
 928 Okeechobee hurricane\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 13 in history:\n• 1759 – French and Indian War: B
 ritish forces won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City\, d
 espite General James Wolfe being mortally wounded. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1759-09-13-battle-of-the-plains-of-abraham\n• 1
 814 – War of 1812: Fort McHenry in Baltimore's Inner Harbor was attacked
  by British forces during the Battle of Baltimore\, inspiring Francis Scot
 t Key to write "Defence of Fort McHenry"\, later used as the lyrics to the
  United States national anthem. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1814-09-13-francis-scott-key\n• 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Lun
 a 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon\, the first spacecraft to reach anoth
 er celestial body. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-09
 -13-luna-2\n• 1971 – Following a failed coup attempt\, Mao Zedong's se
 cond-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to flee Ch
 ina. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-09-13-lin-biao-i
 ncident\n• 2008 – Five bomb blasts took place in Delhi\, India\, killi
 ng at least 20 people as part of a series of attacks perpetrated by the In
 dian Mujahideen. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-09-1
 3-13-september-2008-delhi-bombings\n\nDied 531: Kavad I https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Kavad_I\nBorn 1896: Pat Collins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Pat_Collins_%28baseball%29\nDied 1931: Lili Elbe https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Lili_Elbe\nDied 2021: Antony Hewish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
 ony_Hewish\n\nPictured: Model of ''Luna&nbsp\;2''.
SUMMARY:📅 September 13 · Battle of the Plains of Abraham\, Francis Scot
 t Key\, Luna 2\, Lin Biao incident\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 14 in history:\n• 1723 – António Manoel de Vilhe
 na\, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller\, laid the first stone of For
 t Manoel in Malta. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1723-09
 -14-fort-manoel\n• 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the U
 nited States at age 42\, the youngest person ever to do so\, eight days af
 ter William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo\, New York. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1901-09-14-theodore-roosevelt\n• 1
 979 – Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and
  later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin\, who succeeded him. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-09-14-nur-muhammad-taraki\n
 • 2019 – Drone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Kh
 urais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-09-14-abqaiq-khurais-att
 ack\n\nBorn 1936: John Boyden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyden\nB
 orn 1978: Ron DeSantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis\nDied 19
 82: Grace Kelly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kelly\n\nPictured: Nur
  Muhammad Taraki.
SUMMARY:📅 September 14 · Fort Manoel\, Theodore Roosevelt\, Nur Muhamma
 d Taraki\, Abqaiq–Khurais attack
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DESCRIPTION:September 15 in history:\n• 1791 – French playwright Olympe
  de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Fem
 ale Citizen\, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in th
 e recognition of gender equality. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1791-09-15-declaration-of-the-rights-of-woman-and-o\n• 1821 – 
 The Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America f
 rom the Spanish Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-18
 21-09-15-act-of-independence-of-central-america\n• 1944 – World War II
 : The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began
  the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1944-09-15-battle-of-meligalas\n• 1963 – 
 The 16th Street Baptist Church\, an African-American church in Birmingham\
 , Alabama\, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan\, killing four girls and injuri
 ng at least 14 other people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1963-09-15-16th-street-baptist-church-bombing\n• 2020 – The Abraham
  Accords were signed in Washington\, D.C. (signatories pictured)\, normali
 zing relations between Israel and two Arab nations\, the United Arab Emira
 tes and Bahrain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2020-09-1
 5-abraham-accords\n\nBorn 1676: Stanisław Poniatowski https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Poniatowski_%281676%E2%80%931762%29\nDied 1874: 
 Charles-Amédée Kohler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Am%C3%A9d%C3
 %A9e_Kohler\nBorn 1941: Signe Toly Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Signe_Toly_Anderson\nBorn 1941: Mirosław Hermaszewski https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Miros%C5%82aw_Hermaszewski\n\nPictured: Signatories of the Abra
 ham Accords.
SUMMARY:📅 September 15 · Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the 
 Female Citizen\, Act of…
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DESCRIPTION:September 16 in history:\n• 681 – Pope Honorius I was posth
 umously excommunicated at the Third Council of Constantinople\, with his s
 upport for monothelitism deemed to be heretical. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-0681-09-16-pope-honorius-i\n• 1776 – American R
 evolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle
  of Harlem Heights on the island of Manhattan. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1776-09-16-battle-of-harlem-heights\n• 1961 – Typ
 hoon Nancy (pictured)\, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measur
 ed in a tropical cyclone\, made landfall in Muroto\, Japan. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1961-09-16-typhoon-nancy-1961\n• 1963 
 – Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Ma
 laya\, the State of Singapore\, the Crown Colony of North Borneo\, and the
  Crown Colony of Sarawak. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1963-09-16-malaysia\n• 2007 – One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 crashed a
 fter attempting a poorly executed go-around while landing in Thailand\, ki
 lling 90 of the 130 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-2007-09-16-one-two-go-airlines-flight-269\n\nDied 1343: Philip 
 III of Navarre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_III_of_Navarre\nBorn 1
 916: Raosaheb Gogte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raosaheb_Gogte\nBorn 199
 6: Baka Prase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_Prase\nDied 2025: Robert 
 Redford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford\n\nPictured: [[Imagin
 g radar.
SUMMARY:📅 September 16 · Pope Honorius I\, Battle of Harlem Heights\, T
 yphoon Nancy (1961)\, Malaysia\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 17 in history:\n• 1382 – Following Louis I's deat
 h without a male heir\, his daughter Mary was crowned with the title of "K
 ing of Hungary". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1382-09-1
 7-mary-queen-of-hungary\n• 1849 – Harriet Tubman (pictured) escaped fr
 om slavery in the U.S. state of Maryland\, and later orchestrated the resc
 ues of other slaves via the Underground Railroad. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1849-09-17-harriet-tubman\n• 1939 – World War 
 II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east\, sixteen days after Naz
 i Germany's attack on the country from the west. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1939-09-17-soviet-invasion-of-poland\n• 1962 – 
 NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts selected for the purpose of landin
 g on the Moon. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1962-09-17-
 nasa-astronaut-group-2\n• 2008 – Seven al-Qaeda fighters attacked the 
 United States embassy in Sanaa\, Yemen\, leaving 20 people dead. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-09-17-2008-attack-on-the-unite
 d-states-embassy\n\nDied 958: Li Jingsui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_
 Jingsui\nBorn 1677: Stephen Hales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ha
 les\nBorn 1978: Arne Slot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Slot\nDied 19
 97: Red Skelton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Skelton\n\nPictured: Har
 riet Tubman.
SUMMARY:📅 September 17 · Mary\, Queen of Hungary\, Harriet Tubman\, Sov
 iet invasion of Poland\, NASA…
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DESCRIPTION:September 18 in history:\n• 1796 – War of the First Coaliti
 on: General Franz Petrasch's Austrian and Imperial troops stormed the Fren
 ch-held bridgehead over the Rhine river. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1796-09-18-second-battle-of-kehl-1796\n• 1851 – The New
  York Times\, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States\, wa
 s founded. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1851-09-18-the-
 new-york-times\n• 1961 – An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rh
 odesia\, resulting in the deaths of 16 people\, including United Nations s
 ecretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1961-09-18-1961-ndola-transair-sweden-douglas-dc-6\n• 1964 –
  The wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of D
 enmark took place in Athens. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1964-09-18-wedding-of-constantine-ii-and-princess-a\n\nBorn 1907: Edwin
  McMillan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McMillan\nBorn 1936: Ruth He
 sse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hesse\nDied 2011: Jamey Rodemeyer h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Jamey_Rodemeyer\n\nPictured: Statu
 e of Nerva.
SUMMARY:📅 September 18 · Second Battle of Kehl (1796)\, The New York Ti
 mes\, 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden…
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DESCRIPTION:September 19 in history:\n• 1356 – Hundred Years' War: Engl
 ish forces led by Edward the Black Prince decisively won the Battle of Poi
 tiers and captured John II of France. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1356-09-19-battle-of-poitiers\n• 1692 – Salem witch trials
 : Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges
  of witchcraft\, reportedly asking the sheriff for "more weight" during hi
 s execution. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1692-09-19-gi
 les-corey\n• 1846 – Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France\,
  shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian ap
 parition\, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured). /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1846-09-19-our-lady-of-la-salette\
 n• 1976 – An unidentified flying object over Tehran in Iran was observ
 ed by multiple civilians and military personnel\, which has been described
  as one of the most credible cases in ufology. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1976-09-19-1976-tehran-ufo-incident\n• 2011 – Mar
 iano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all
 -time career leader in saves. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-2011-09-19-mariano-rivera\n\nBorn 866: Leo VI the Wise https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise\nBorn 1928: Adam West https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Adam_West\nDied 1995: Rudolf Peierls https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Rudolf_Peierls\nDied 2004: Damayanti Joshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Damayanti_Joshi\n\nPictured: Statue of Our Lady of La Salette.
SUMMARY:📅 September 19 · Battle of Poitiers\, Giles Corey\, Our Lady of
  La Salette\, 1976 Tehran UFO…
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DESCRIPTION:September 20 in history:\n• 1498 – A tsunami caused by the 
 Meiō earthquake washed away the building housing the Great Buddha (pictur
 ed) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura\, Japan\; the statue has since stood in the 
 open air. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1498-09-20-kotok
 u-in\n• 1906 – The ocean liner RMS Mauretania\, the largest and fastes
 t ship in the world at the time\, was launched in Tyneside\, England. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1906-09-20-rms-mauretania-1906
 \n• 1944 – Second World War: Allied forces captured San Marino from th
 e German Army. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-09-20-
 battle-of-san-marino\n• 1973 – Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs i
 n straight sets at the Astrodome in Houston\, Texas\, in an internationall
 y televised tennis match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes". /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1973-09-20-battle-of-the-sexes-tennis\n
 • 2011 – The United States military ended its "don't ask\, don't tell"
  policy\, consequently allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-09-20-don-t-ask-don-t-t
 ell\n\nBorn 1869: George Robey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robey\
 nBorn 1924: Hartini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartini\nBorn 1971: Masa
 shi Hamauzu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masashi_Hamauzu\nDied 2001: Vict
 or Henry Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Henry_Anderson\n\nP
 ictured: Great Buddha of Kamakura.
SUMMARY:📅 September 20 · Kōtoku-in\, RMS Mauretania (1906)\, Battle of
  San Marino\, Battle of the Sexes…
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DESCRIPTION:September 21 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary W
 ar: The Great Fire of New York (depicted) broke out during the British occ
 upation of New York City\, destroying up to 1\,000 buildings. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-09-21-great-fire-of-new-york-1776
 \n• 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit\, wh
 ich later served as a prelude to The Lord of the Rings\, was first publish
 ed. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1937-09-21-the-hobbit\
 n• 1965 – Portugal accepted a diplomatic mission from Southern Rhodesi
 a despite objections by Britain\, which had required the colony to impleme
 nt black majority rule as a condition of independence. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1965-09-21-rhodesian-mission-in-lisbon\n• 1
 999 – The first chapter of Naruto\, later one of the best-selling manga 
 series\, was published. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 99-09-21-naruto\n• 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes was broadcast b
 y over 35 network and cable channels\, raising over $200 million for the v
 ictims of the September 11 attacks. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-2001-09-21-america-a-tribute-to-heroes\n\nPictured: The Great Fi
 re of New York.
SUMMARY:📅 September 21 · Great Fire of New York (1776)\, The Hobbit\, R
 hodesian mission in Lisbon\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 22 in history:\n• 1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Li
 vonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and
  Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1236-09-22-battle-of-saule\n• 1726 – Bach led the fi
 rst performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert\, der preiset mich\, BWV 17
 \, in Leipzig. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1726-09-22-
 wer-dank-opfert-der-preiset-mich-bwv-17\n• 1979 – An American Vela sat
 ellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Isla
 nds in the Indian Ocean\, thought to be a nuclear weapons test. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-09-22-vela-incident\n• 1994 
 – The Nordhordland Bridge (pictured)\, crossing Salhusfjorden between Kl
 auvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland\, and Norway's second-longest bridge\, o
 fficially opened. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-09-
 22-nordhordland-bridge\n• 2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All
  Saints Church in Peshawar\, Pakistan\, was attacked by two suicide bomber
 s who killed 127 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2
 013-09-22-peshawar-church-bombing\n\nBorn 1897: Frank O'Connor https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O%27Connor_%28actor%2C_born_1897%29\nBorn 1931: N
 ello Santi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nello_Santi\nDied 2008: Thomas D
 örflein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%C3%B6rflein\nDied 2018: Ed
 na Molewa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Molewa\n\nPictured: Nordhordl
 and Bridge.
SUMMARY:📅 September 22 · Battle of Saule\, Wer Dank opfert\, der preise
 t mich\, BWV 17\, Vela incident\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 23 in history:\n• 1803 – Maratha troops were defe
 ated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye\,
  one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1803-09-23-battle-of-assaye\n• 1884 
 – The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast of Cap
 e Virgenes in Argentina\; gold was discovered during the rescue effort\, t
 riggering the Tierra del Fuego Gold Rush. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1884-09-23-tierra-del-fuego-gold-rush\n• 1983 – Flying
  from Pakistan\, Gulf Air Flight 771 was blown up by the Abu Nidal Organiz
 ation while on approach over the United Arab Emirates\, killing all 112 pe
 ople on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1983-09-23-
 gulf-air-flight-771\n• 1997 – Irish rock band U2 performed in Sarajevo
  (pictured)\, the first major artist to hold a concert in the city since t
 he end of the Bosnian War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1997-09-23-u2-concert-in-sarajevo\n• 2016 – Following a number of hig
 h-profile sexual assaults\, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws 
 related to rape in Germany. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-2016-09-23-rape-in-germany\n\nBorn 1598: Eleonora Gonzaga https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora_Gonzaga_%28born_1598%29\nDied 1851: Émilie Gamel
 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_Gamelin\nBorn 1914: Omar Ali 
 Saifuddien III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Ali_Saifuddien_III\nBorn
  1930: Ray Charles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles\n\nPictured: 
 U2 performing in Sarajevo.
SUMMARY:📅 September 23 · Battle of Assaye\, Tierra del Fuego Gold Rush\
 , Gulf Air Flight 771\, U2 concert…
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DESCRIPTION:September 24 in history:\n• 1841 – Raja Muda Hashim\, the u
 ncle of Omar Ali Saifuddin II\, Sultan of Brunei\, conceded land to the Br
 itish adventurer James Brooke to establish the Raj of Sarawak. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1841-09-24-raj-of-sarawak\n• 1911 
 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1\, Britain's first rigid airship\, was wrec
 ked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness (picture
 d). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-09-24-hma-no-1\n
 • 1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the
  Mogilev Conference began\, marking an increase in violence against Jews a
 nd other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's com
 mand. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1941-09-24-mogilev-c
 onference\n• 1950 – The "Great Smoke Pall"\, generated by the Chinchag
 a fire\, the largest recorded fire in North American history\, was first r
 ecorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire 
 globe. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-09-24-chinchag
 a-fire\n• 1964 – The Warren Commission released its report to the U.S.
  president\, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassin
 ation of John F. Kennedy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1964-09-24-warren-commission\n\nDied 366: Pope Liberius https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Pope_Liberius\nBorn 936: 'Adud al-Dawla https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/%27Adud_al-Dawla\nDied 1621: Jan Karol Chodkiewicz https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karol_Chodkiewicz\nBorn 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald\n\nPictured: HMA No. 1 wrecka
 ge.
SUMMARY:📅 September 24 · Raj of Sarawak\, HMA No. 1\, Mogilev Conferenc
 e\, Chinchaga fire\, Warren Commission
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DESCRIPTION:September 25 in history:\n• 275 – After the assassination o
 f Aurelian\, Tacitus (depicted) was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as
  Roman emperor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0275-09-25
 -tacitus-emperor\n• 1066 – Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III o
 f Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford B
 ridge\, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1066-09-25-battle-of-stamford-bridge\n
 • 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen and a small force of 
 American and Quebec militia failed to capture the city of Montreal from Br
 itish forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1775-09-25-b
 attle-of-longue-pointe\n• 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S.
  ships became involved\, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Bat
 avian island of Curaçao. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1800-09-25-invasion-of-curacao-1800\n• 1978 – While on approach to San
  Diego International Airport\, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182\, a B
 oeing 727\, collided with a Cessna 172\, killing all 137 people on board b
 oth aircraft\, along with 7 more on the ground. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1978-09-25-pacific-southwest-airlines-flight-182\n\n
 Died 1867: Oliver Loving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Loving\nBorn
  1925: Silvana Pampanini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvana_Pampanini\n
 Born 1955: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_
 Rummenigge\nDied 2016: José Fernández https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%
 C3%A9_Fern%C3%A1ndez_%28right-handed_pitcher%29\n\nPictured: Tacitus.
SUMMARY:📅 September 25 · Tacitus (emperor)\, Battle of Stamford Bridge\
 , Battle of Longue-Pointe\,…
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DESCRIPTION:September 26 in history:\n• 1087 – William II\, son of Will
 iam the Conqueror\, was crowned king of England. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1087-09-26-william-ii-of-england\n• 1907 – The 
 British colony of New Zealand officially became a dominion to reflect its 
 political independence since the 1850s. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1907-09-26-colony-of-new-zealand\n• 1944 – World War II:
  The Soviet Red Army completed the Tallinn offensive\, driving German forc
 es out of Estonia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-09
 -26-tallinn-offensive\n• 1983 – The racing yacht Australia II\, captai
 ned by John Bertrand\, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht 
 Club's 132-year defence of the trophy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1983-09-26-australia-ii\n• 2008 – Swiss pilot and invento
 r Yves Rossy (pictured) flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the 
 English Channel. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-09-2
 6-yves-rossy\n\nBorn 1651: Francis Daniel Pastorius https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Francis_Daniel_Pastorius\nBorn 1930: Alice Harnoncourt https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Harnoncourt\nDied 1987: Andi Ramang https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Andi_Ramang\nDied 2010: Gloria Stuart https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Gloria_Stuart\n\nPictured: Yves Rossy.
SUMMARY:📅 September 26 · William II of England\, colony of New Zealand\
 , Tallinn offensive\, Australia II\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 27 in history:\n• 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was 
 signed\, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border\, which afterwards 
 remained unchanged for about 500 years. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1422-09-27-treaty-of-melno\n• 1875 – The merchant ship E
 llen Southard was wrecked in a storm at Liverpool\, England\; the U.S. Con
 gress subsequently awarded 27 Gold Lifesaving Medals to the men who rescue
 d her crew. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1875-09-27-ell
 en-southard\n• 1940 – World War II: Nazi Germany\, Fascist Italy and t
 he Empire of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin\, officially formi
 ng a military alliance known as the Axis. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1940-09-27-tripartite-pact\n• 1949 – Members of the Ch
 inese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng
  Liansong's design for the flag of China (pictured). /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1949-09-27-chinese-people-s-political-consultat
 ive\n• 2014 – Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted\, kil
 ling 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-09-27-2014-mount-onta
 ke-eruption\n\nBorn 1507: Guillaume Rondelet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Guillaume_Rondelet\nDied 1891: Ivan Goncharov https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Ivan_Goncharov\nBorn 1941: Joel Shapiro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
 oel_Shapiro\nDied 2021: Madeleine Tchicaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
 adeleine_Tchicaya\n\nPictured: Flag of China.
SUMMARY:📅 September 27 · Treaty of Melno\, Ellen Southard\, Tripartite 
 Pact\, flag of China\, 2014 Mount…
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DESCRIPTION:September 28 in history:\n• 235 – Pope Pontian resigned aft
 er being exiled to Sardinia\, becoming the first pope to relinquish the po
 sition. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0235-09-28-pope-po
 ntian\n• 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire 
 from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1821-09-28-declaration-of-independence
 -mexico\n• 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kille
 d more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Ba
 langiga on the island of Samar. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1901-09-28-balangiga-massacre\n• 1958 – Fernando Rios\, a Mexica
 n tour guide in New Orleans\, was killed in an instance of gay bashing. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1958-09-28-killing-of-fernan
 do-rios\n• 2023 – The Sycamore Gap tree (pictured) in Northumberland\,
  England\, was illegally felled. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-2023-09-28-sycamore-gap-tree\n\nBorn 1626: Elizabeth Maitland\, Duc
 hess of Lauderdale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Maitland%2C_Duc
 hess_of_Lauderdale\nBorn 1944: Miloš Zeman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Milo%C5%A1_Zeman\nBorn 1984: Melody Thornton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Melody_Thornton\nBorn 1988: Marin Čilić https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
 arin_%C4%8Cili%C4%87\n\nPictured: Sycamore Gap tree after it was felled.
SUMMARY:📅 September 28 · Pope Pontian\, Declaration of Independence (Me
 xico)\, Balangiga massacre\,…
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DESCRIPTION:September 29 in history:\n• 1726 – Johann Sebastian Bach le
 d the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit\, a cantata for Michae
 lmas. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1726-09-29-es-erhub-
 sich-ein-streit-bwv-19\n• 1923 – The Mandate for Palestine came into e
 ffect\, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under
  British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King A
 bdullah I. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1923-09-29-mand
 ate-for-palestine\n• 1963 – The University of East Anglia (coat of arm
 s featured) was founded in Norwich\, England\, after talk of establishing 
 a university in the city began as early as the 19th century. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-09-29-university-of-east-anglia\n
 • 1991 – The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast p
 remiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1991-09-29-beauty-and-the-beast-1991-film\n
 • 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with 
 an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo\, Brazil\, killing 
 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2006-09-29-gol-transportes-aereos-flight-1907\
 n\nDied 1186: William of Tyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Tyr
 e\nBorn 1402: Ferdinand the Holy Prince https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferd
 inand_the_Holy_Prince\nBorn 1999: Choi Ye-na https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Choi_Ye-na\nDied 2016: Miriam Defensor Santiago https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago\n\nPictured: Coat of arms of the University 
 of East Anglia.
SUMMARY:📅 September 29 · Es erhub sich ein Streit\, BWV 19\, Mandate fo
 r Palestine\, University of East…
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DESCRIPTION:September 30 in history:\n• 1342 – An Anglo-Breton army def
 eated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hun
 dred Years' War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1342-09-3
 0-battle-of-morlaix\n• 1551 – Sue Takafusa\, a retainer of the Ōuchi 
 clan in western Japan\, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka\, 
 leading to the latter's forced suicide. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1551-09-30-tainei-ji-incident\n• 1863 – Georges Bizet's 
 opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1863-09-30-les-pecheurs-d
 e-perles\n• 1982 – Cheers\, an American television sitcom\, debuted wi
 th its pilot episode on NBC. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1982-09-30-give-me-a-ring-sometime\n• 2009 – A 7.6 MW earthquake st
 ruck off the southern coast of Sumatra\, Indonesia (damage pictured)\, kil
 ling 1\,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-09-30-2009-sumatra-earthquakes\n\nDi
 ed 940: Fan Yanguang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Yanguang\nDied 1376
 : Adelaide of Vianden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Vianden\nD
 ied 1839: John Thirtle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thirtle\nBorn 19
 51: Catie Ball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catie_Ball\n\nPictured: A bui
 lding damaged by the 2009 Sumatra earthquake.
SUMMARY:📅 September 30 · Battle of Morlaix\, Tainei-ji incident\, Les p
 êcheurs de perles\, Give Me a Ring…
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DESCRIPTION:October 1 in history:\n• 1891 – Stanford University\, found
 ed by railroad magnate and politician Leland Stanford and his wife Jane in
  Palo Alto\, California\, admitted its first students. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1891-10-01-stanford-university\n• 1906 – 
 A deputation of Muslim leaders led by the Aga Khan III met Indian viceroy 
 Lord Minto to secure greater political representation\, eventually leading
  to the founding of the All-India Muslim League. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1906-10-01-simla-deputation\n• 1946 – Mensa\, t
 he largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world\, was formed in the Uni
 ted Kingdom. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1946-10-01-me
 nsa-international\n• 1978 – Tuvalu adopted its national flag (pictured
 ) on the day that the country gained its independence. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1978-10-01-flag-of-tuvalu\n• 2022 – After
  losing a league home match to their local rivals\, Persebaya Surabaya\, a
 round 3\,000 Arema supporters invaded the pitch at Kanjuruhan Stadium\, pr
 ompting police to fire tear gas and causing a stampede that killed 135. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2022-10-01-kanjuruhan-stadiu
 m-disaster\n\nBorn 208: Severus Alexander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se
 verus_Alexander\nDied 1416: Yaqub Spata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqu
 b_Spata\nBorn 1976: Nasir al-Wuhayshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_
 al-Wuhayshi\nDied 2025: Jane Goodall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go
 odall\n\nPictured: Flag of Tuvalu.
SUMMARY:📅 October 1 · Stanford University\, Simla Deputation\, Mensa In
 ternational\, Flag of Tuvalu\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 2 in history:\n• 1766 – As part of wider food riots
 \, citizens in Nottingham\, England\, looted large quantities of cheese\; 
 one man was killed during attempts to restore order. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1766-10-02-nottingham-cheese-riot\n• 1879 –
  Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire\, but the
  terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify t
 he treaty. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1879-10-02-trea
 ty-of-livadia\n• 1913 – The Shubert Theatre (pictured) opened on Broad
 way with a production of Hamlet. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1913-10-02-shubert-theatre-broadway\n• 1971 – Nguyễn Văn Thi
 ệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1971-10-02-nguy-n-van-thi-u\n• 2006 
 – A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-ro
 om schoolhouse in Nickel Mines\, Pennsylvania. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2006-10-02-west-nickel-mines-school-shooting\n\nDied 
 1786: Augustus Keppel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Keppel%2C_1st
 _Viscount_Keppel\nBorn 1939: Michael Bambang Hartono https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Michael_Bambang_Hartono\nBorn 1951: Sting https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Sting_%28musician%29\nDied 2022: Sacheen Littlefeather https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather\n\nPictured: Shubert Theatre.
SUMMARY:📅 October 2 · Nottingham cheese riot\, Treaty of Livadia\, Shub
 ert Theatre (Broadway)\, Nguyễn…
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DESCRIPTION:October 3 in history:\n• 1792 – Spanish forces departed Val
 divia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1792-10-03-huilliche-uprising
 -of-1792\n• 1953 – Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by 
 Archbishop William Mark Duke\, fifty-three years after it first opened. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1953-10-03-holy-rosary-cathe
 dral-vancouver\n• 1963 – Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran pre
 sident Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup\, initiating two decades o
 f military rule. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1963-10-0
 3-1963-honduran-coup-d-etat\n• 1992 – Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photo
 graph of Pope John Paul II on live television. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1992-10-03-sinead-o-connor\n• 2003 – Roy Horn of 
 the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled 
 by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2003-10-03-siegfried-roy\n\nBo
 rn 1610: Gabriel Lalemant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lalemant\n
 Born 1905: Caroline Brady https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Brady_%28
 philologist%29\nDied 1931: Carl Nielsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl
 _Nielsen\nBorn 1971: Sean Duffy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy\n
 \nPictured: Siegfried&nbsp\;& Roy with a white lion.
SUMMARY:📅 October 3 · Huilliche uprising of 1792\, Holy Rosary Cathedra
 l (Vancouver)\, 1963 Honduran…
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DESCRIPTION:October 4 in history:\n• 1448 – Skanderbeg and Gjergj Arian
 iti signed a peace treaty to end the Albanian–Venetian War. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1448-10-04-albanian-venetian-war\n• 
 1633 – Smolensk War: Forces from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth br
 oke the Russian siege of Smolensk (depicted). /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1633-10-04-siege-of-smolensk-1632-1633\n• 1862 – A
 merican Civil War: After a naval battle in Galveston Harbor\, Texas\, Conf
 ederate commanders negotiated the surrender of the city to Union forces. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1862-10-04-battle-of-galves
 ton-harbor-1862\n• 1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-
 Qawuqji captured the city of Hama from the French Mandate of Syria. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-10-04-1925-hama-uprising\n
 • 1927 – Gutzon Borglum and approximately 400 workers began sculpting 
 Mount Rushmore. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1927-10-04
 -mount-rushmore\n\nBorn 1875: George Formby Sr https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/George_Formby_Sr\nBorn 1911: Mary Two-Axe Earley https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Mary_Two-Axe_Earley\nBorn 1956: Christoph Waltz https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Christoph_Waltz\nDied 1980: Pyotr Masherov https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Pyotr_Masherov\n\nPictured: Engraving of the Siege of Smolensk.
SUMMARY:📅 October 4 · Albanian–Venetian War\, Siege of Smolensk (1632
 –1633)\, Battle of Galveston…
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DESCRIPTION:October 5 in history:\n• 1838 – A Cherokee band attacked se
 ttlers near Larissa\, Texas\, killing or abducting 18 people. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1838-10-05-killough-massacre\n• 1903
  – Samuel Griffith (pictured) became the first Chief Justice of Australi
 a\, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justi
 ces of the High Court of Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1903-10-05-samuel-griffith\n• 1937 – Six days after retiring
  from the Queen's College\, Oxford\, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its
  provost due to the sudden death of B. H. Streeter. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1937-10-05-robert-howard-hodgkin\n• 1962 – D
 r. No\, the first James Bond film\, was released. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1962-10-05-dr-no-film\n• 2014 – Formula One ra
 cing driver Jules Bianchi crashed at the Japanese Grand Prix\, sustaining 
 fatal head injuries that would kill him the following year. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-10-05-jules-bianchi\n\nDied 1880: J
 acques Offenbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach\nBorn 194
 1: Eduardo Duhalde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Duhalde\nBorn 197
 5: Kate Winslet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet\nDied 1995: Pin
  Malakul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Malakul\n\nPictured: Samuel Gri
 ffith.
SUMMARY:📅 October 5 · Killough massacre\, Samuel Griffith\, Robert Howa
 rd Hodgkin\, Dr. No (film)\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 6 in history:\n• 1762 – Seven Years' War: The Battl
 e of Manila concluded with a British victory over Spain\, leading to an ei
 ghteen-month occupation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 762-10-06-battle-of-manila-1762\n• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: 
 Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir
  Henry Clinton\, dismantling the Hudson River Chains. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1777-10-06-battle-of-forts-clinton-and-montgom
 ery\n• 1973 – The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictur
 ed) to attack occupying Israel Defense Forces at the Bar Lev Line in the S
 inai Peninsula\, beginning the Yom Kippur War. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1973-10-06-operation-badr-1973\n• 1995 – Astronom
 ers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbi
 ting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-10-06-51-pegasi-b\n•
  2000 – Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa
 's administration and the Senate\, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2000-10-06-carlos-alvare
 z-argentine-politician\n\nBorn 1729: Sarah Crosby https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Sarah_Crosby\nBorn 1955: Wang Huning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
 ang_Huning\nDied 1980: Hattie Jacques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie
 _Jacques\nDied 2024: Johan Neeskens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Ne
 eskens\n\nPictured: Egyptian forces raising the Egyptian flag in a capture
 d Israeli position in the Sinai.
SUMMARY:📅 October 6 · Battle of Manila (1762)\, Battle of Forts Clinton
  and Montgomery\, Operation…
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DESCRIPTION:October 7 in history:\n• 1513 – War of the League of Cambra
 i: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by t
 he Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1513-10-07-battle-of-la-motta
 -1513\n• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist mili
 tias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1780-10-07-battle-of-king
 s-mountain\n• 1914 – Seven-year-old Theo Faiss\, later memorialized in
  speeches by Rudolf Steiner and a sculpture (pictured) by Edith Maryon\, w
 as killed by an overturned wagon in Switzerland. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1914-10-07-theo-faiss\n• 1985 – About 130 peopl
 e died as a result of severe floods in Puerto Rico. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1985-10-07-1985-puerto-rico-floods\n• 2023 –
  In the October 7 attacks\, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups ki
 lled nearly 1\,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 hostages\, start
 ing the Gaza war. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2023-10-
 07-october-7-attacks\n\nDied 1922: Marie Lloyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Marie_Lloyd\nBorn 1958: Bernardo Arévalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Bernardo_Ar%C3%A9valo\nBorn 1967: María Corina Machado https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado\nBorn 1981: Austin Eubanks https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Eubanks\n\nPictured: ''In Memory of Theo Fais
 s''.
SUMMARY:📅 October 7 · Battle of La Motta (1513)\, Battle of Kings Mount
 ain\, Theo Faiss\, 1985 Puerto…
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DESCRIPTION:October 8 in history:\n• 1862 – American Civil War: The Bat
 tle of Perryville was fought west of Perryville\, Kentucky. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1862-10-08-battle-of-perryville\n• 195
 2 – Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone st
 ation in London\, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1952-10-08-harrow-and-wealdstone-rail-
 crash\n• 1969 – Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground kn
 own as the Days of Rage began in Chicago\, aimed at ending U.S. involvemen
 t in the Vietnam War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1969
 -10-08-days-of-rage\n• 1995 – The Croatian Army and Croatian Defence C
 ouncil launched Operation Southern Move\, their last offensive in the Bosn
 ian War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-10-08-operat
 ion-southern-move\n• 2019 – Anti-government protests calling for free 
 and fair elections began in Baku\, Azerbaijan. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2019-10-08-2019-baku-protests\n\nBorn 1901: Mark Olip
 hant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliphant\nBorn 1970: Sadiq Khan ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Khan\nBorn 2002: Zheng Qinwen https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Qinwen\nDied 2025: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannir_Selvam_Pranthaman\n\nPictured: Wreckage f
 rom the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash.
SUMMARY:📅 October 8 · Battle of Perryville\, Harrow and Wealdstone rail
  crash\, Days of Rage\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 9 in history:\n• 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia 
 defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border\, 
 in present-day Belarus. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-17
 08-10-09-battle-of-lesnaya\n• 1740 – European soldiers and Javanese co
 llaborators started massacring Chinese Indonesians in the port city of Bat
 avia\, modern-day Jakarta: at least 10\,000 people were killed. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1740-10-09-1740-batavia-massacre\n
 • 1793 – French Revolution: After a month-long siege\, the leaders of 
 Lyon surrendered\, ending their revolt against the National Convention. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1793-10-09-revolt-of-lyon-ag
 ainst-the-national-conv\n• 1921 – The Mortimer War Memorial (pictured)
 \, designed by Herbert Maryon in memory of local servicemen who died in th
 e First World War\, was dedicated. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1921-10-09-mortimer-war-memorial\n• 1952 – A footman shot and
  killed two colleagues and wounded the lady of the house at Knowsley Hall\
 , England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1952-10-09-know
 sley-hall-shootings\n\nDied 705: Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Malik_ibn_Marwan\nDied 1895: Nadezhda Stasova https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Stasova\nBorn 1998: Yuri Tsunematsu https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Tsunematsu\nDied 2006: Paul Hunter https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hunter\n\nPictured: Mortimer War Memorial.
SUMMARY:📅 October 9 · Battle of Lesnaya\, 1740 Batavia massacre\, Revol
 t of Lyon against the National…
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DESCRIPTION:October 10 in history:\n• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali\, a grandson
  of Muhammad\, was killed at the Battle of Karbala (depicted) by the force
 s of Yazid I\, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0680-10-10-battle-of-karbala\n• 176
 0 – In a treaty with Dutch colonial authorities\, the Ndyuka people of S
 uriname gained territorial autonomy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1760-10-10-ndyuka-people\n• 1911 – The Xinhai Revolution be
 gan with the Wuchang Uprising\, marking the beginning of the collapse of t
 he Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1911-10-10-wuchang-uprising\n• 194
 3 – World War II: The Kempeitai\, the military police arm of the Imperia
 l Japanese Army\, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian
  internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbou
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-10-10-double-tenth
 -incident\n• 2004 – Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered\
 ; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and
  Malaysia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2004-10-10-murd
 er-of-huang-na\n\nDied 1720: Antoine Coysevox https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Antoine_Coysevox\nBorn 1930: Harold Pinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Harold_Pinter\nBorn 1967: Nicholas Tartaglione https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Nicholas_Tartaglione\nDied 1986: Priaulx Rainier https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Priaulx_Rainier\n\nPictured: Battle of Karbala.
SUMMARY:📅 October 10 · Battle of Karbala\, Ndyuka people\, Wuchang Upri
 sing\, Double Tenth incident\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 11 in history:\n• 1311 – The peerage and clergy of 
 the Kingdom of England published the Ordinances of 1311 to restrict King E
 dward II's powers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1311-10
 -11-ordinances-of-1311\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A British
  fleet defeated American ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Cha
 mplain\, but gave American forces enough time to prepare their defenses fo
 r the Saratoga campaign. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 776-10-11-battle-of-valcour-island\n• 1890 – In Washington\, D.C.\, th
 e Daughters of the American Revolution was founded. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1890-10-11-daughters-of-the-american-revolution\
 n• 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger\, astronaut Kathryn D. S
 ullivan (pictured) became the first American woman to perform a space walk
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1984-10-11-kathryn-d-sul
 livan\n• 1987 – An estimated 750\,000 people attended the "Great March
 " in Washington\, D.C.\, to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT commu
 nity. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1987-10-11-second-na
 tional-march-on-washington-for\n\nDied 1531: Huldrych Zwingli https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli\nBorn 1926: Jean Alexander https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Alexander\nBorn 1970: Shin Tae-yong https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Shin_Tae-yong\nDied 2022: Angela Lansbury https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury\n\nPictured: Kathryn Sullivan.
SUMMARY:📅 October 11 · Ordinances of 1311\, Battle of Valcour Island\, 
 Daughters of the American…
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DESCRIPTION:October 12 in history:\n• 1406 – Chen Yanxiang\, the only p
 erson from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea\, reached Seoul 
 after having set out from Java four months before. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1406-10-12-chen-yanxiang\n• 1798 – The Peasan
 ts' War began in Overmere\, Southern Netherlands\, with peasants taking up
  arms against the French occupiers. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1798-10-12-peasants-war-1798\n• 1917 – First World War: New 
 Zealand troops suffered more than 2\,000 casualties\, including more than 
 800 deaths\, in the First Battle of Passchendaele\, making it the nation's
  largest loss of life in one day. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1917-10-12-first-battle-of-passchendaele\n• 1979 – Typhoon Tip
 \, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded\, reached a
  worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of in the western Pacific Ocean. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-10-12-typhoon-tip\n
 • 2013 – Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse (
 pictured) in Medellín\, leading to new construction laws being passed in 
 Colombia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-10-12-colla
 pse-of-the-space-building\n\nDied 1758: Richard Molesworth\, 3rd Viscount 
 Molesworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Molesworth%2C_3rd_Viscoun
 t_Molesworth\nBorn 1977: Sohei Kamiya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohei_
 Kamiya\nBorn 1992: Josh Hutcherson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hutc
 herson\nDied 2024: Alex Salmond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Salmond
 \n\nPictured: The Space Building after its collapse.
SUMMARY:📅 October 12 · Chen Yanxiang\, Peasants' War (1798)\, First Bat
 tle of Passchendaele\, Typhoon…
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DESCRIPTION:October 13 in history:\n• 1710 – Queen Anne's War: French a
 nd Wabanaki forces surrendered to end the Siege of Port Royal\, giving the
  British permanent possession of Nova Scotia. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1710-10-13-siege-of-port-royal-1710\n• 1812 – War 
 of 1812: British troops and Mohawk warriors repelled an American invasion 
 from across the Niagara River at the Battle of Queenston Heights near Quee
 nston\, Ontario. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1812-10-1
 3-battle-of-queenston-heights\n• 1908 – British suffragette Margaret T
 ravers Symons became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when
  she escaped from her escort into the chamber and shouted at the assembly.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1908-10-13-margaret-trave
 rs-symons\n• 1994 – The Troubles: In a meeting at Fernhill House\, Bel
 fast\, loyalist leader Gusty Spence announced that the Combined Loyalist M
 ilitary Command would observe a ceasefire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1994-10-13-fernhill-house\n• 2019 – At the Chicago Ma
 rathon\, Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei (pictured) set the current marathon w
 orld record for women running in a mixed-sex race. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-2019-10-13-brigid-kosgei\n\nBorn 1821: Rudolf Vir
 chow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow\nBorn 1956: Chris Carter
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Carter_%28screenwriter%29\nDied 1968:
  Bea Benaderet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea_Benaderet\nBorn 1996: Jos
 hua Wong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong\n\nPictured: Brigid Kos
 gei.
SUMMARY:📅 October 13 · Siege of Port Royal (1710)\, Battle of Queenston
  Heights\, Margaret Travers…
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DESCRIPTION:October 14 in history:\n• 1066 – Norman Conquest: William t
 he Conqueror's forces defeated the English army at Hastings and killed Har
 old Godwinson (depicted)\, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1066-10-14-battle-of-hastin
 gs\n• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal M
 ichel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen\, present-day Germany. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1805-10-14-battle-of-elchinge
 n\n• 1913 – The worst mining accident in the United Kingdom's history 
 took place when an explosion resulted in 440 deaths at the Universal Colli
 ery in Senghenydd\, Wales. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1913-10-14-senghenydd-colliery-disaster\n• 1943 – The Second Philippi
 ne Republic\, a Japanese puppet state\, was established with Jose P. Laure
 l as its first president. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1943-10-14-second-philippine-republic\n• 1964 – Members of the Politbu
 ro voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist P
 arty of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1964-10-14-leonid-brezhnev\n\nDied 17
 70: Benning Wentworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benning_Wentworth\nBor
 n 1845: Laura Askew Haygood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Askew_Hayg
 ood\nBorn 1947: Charlie Joiner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Joine
 r\nDied 2015: Mathieu Kérékou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_K%C3
 %A9r%C3%A9kou\n\nPictured: Battle of Hastings\, as depicted in the Bayeux 
 Tapestry.
SUMMARY:📅 October 14 · Battle of Hastings\, Battle of Elchingen\, Sengh
 enydd colliery disaster\, Second…
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DESCRIPTION:October 15 in history:\n• 1815 – Napoleon began his exile o
 n Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean\, which would encompass his fin
 al six years. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1815-10-15-n
 apoleon-s-exile-to-st-helena\n• 1932 – Air India (modern aircraft pict
 ured)\, the flag carrier airline of India\, began operations under the nam
 e Tata Airlines. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1932-10-1
 5-air-india\n• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas i
 n the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the sam
 e day\, killing 176 people in the two countries. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1954-10-15-hurricane-hazel\n• 1996 – The Irish 
 Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of D
 etective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996-10-15-criminal-assets
 -bureau\n• 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the no
 rthwestern coast of the island of Hawaii. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-2006-10-15-2006-kiholo-bay-earthquake\n\nDied 1817: Tadeus
 z Kościuszko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko\nBorn 
 1906: Hiram Fong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Fong\nBorn 1976: Jami
 e Stuart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Stuart\nDied 2025: Jim Bolger
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bolger\n\nPictured: Air India Boeing 74
 7.
SUMMARY:📅 October 15 · Napoleon's exile to St. Helena\, Air India\, Hur
 ricane Hazel\, Criminal Assets…
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DESCRIPTION:October 16 in history:\n• 1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was off
 icially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact
  that she was a sovereign in her own right. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1384-10-16-jadwiga-of-poland\n• 1875 – Brigham Young
  University was founded in Provo\, Utah\, United States. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1875-10-16-brigham-young-university\n• 19
 26 – Háry János\, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály\, was prem
 iered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1926-10-16-hary-janos\n• 1950 – The first 
 novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis\, The Lion\, t
 he Witch and the Wardrobe\, was published in the United Kingdom. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-10-16-the-lion-the-witch-and-t
 he-wardrobe\n• 2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activ
 ist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2017-10-16-daphne-caruana-gal
 izia\n\nBorn 1854: Oscar Wilde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde\n
 Born 1959: Tessa Munt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Munt\nDied 2000:
  Mel Carnahan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Carnahan\nDied 2024: Liam 
 Payne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Payne\n\nPictured: Háry János p
 oster.
SUMMARY:📅 October 16 · Jadwiga of Poland\, Brigham Young University\, H
 áry János\, The Lion\, the Witch…
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DESCRIPTION:October 17 in history:\n• 1660 – A series of executions of 
 the commissioners who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of Englan
 d concluded\; six were hanged\, drawn and quartered for treason. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1660-10-17-list-of-regicides-of-cha
 rles-i-of-englan\n• 1771 – Ascanio in Alba\, an opera composed by Wolf
 gang Amadeus Mozart (pictured) at the age of 15\, premiered in Milan. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1771-10-17-ascanio-in-alba\n
 • 1860 – The Open Championship\, the oldest of the four major champion
 ships in men's golf\, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1860-10-17-the-open-champ
 ionship\n• 1992 – Having gone to the wrong house in Baton Rouge\, Loui
 siana\, for a Halloween party\, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattor
 i was shot and killed by the homeowner. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1992-10-17-killing-of-yoshihiro-hattori\n• 2001 – Rehava
 m Ze'evi\, the Israeli minister of tourism\, was assassinated in revenge f
 or the killing of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-2001-10-17-assassination-of-rehavam-ze-evi\n\nBorn 18
 70: George Nicol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nicol_%28baseball%29
 \nBorn 1893: Raffaele Bendandi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Bend
 andi\nDied 2001: Micheline Ostermeyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel
 ine_Ostermeyer\nDied 2019: Elijah Cummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E
 lijah_Cummings\n\nPictured: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
SUMMARY:📅 October 17 · List of regicides of Charles I\, Ascanio in Alba
 \, The Open Championship\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 18 in history:\n• 1356 – The most significant earth
 quake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Bas
 el\, Switzerland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1356-10-
 18-1356-basel-earthquake\n• 1887 – Johannes Brahms (pictured) conducte
 d the premiere of his Double Concerto\, composed for violinist Joseph Joac
 him and cellist Robert Hausmann. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1887-10-18-double-concerto-brahms\n• 1943 – Pere Areny\, convic
 ted of the murder of his brother\, became the last person to be executed b
 y Andorra. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-10-18-pere
 -areny\n• 1963 – The first cat in space\, later known as Félicette\, 
 launched aboard a French Véronique rocket. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1963-10-18-felicette\n• 2019 – Protests in Santiago 
 that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean 
 national police\, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state 
 of emergency. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-10-18-s
 ocial-outburst-chile\n\nDied 1646: Isaac Jogues https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Isaac_Jogues\nBorn 1835: Marshall McDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Marshall_McDonald\nBorn 1926: Chuck Berry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Chuck_Berry\nBorn 1993: Zarina Diyas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarina
 _Diyas\n\nPictured: Johannes Brahms.
SUMMARY:📅 October 18 · 1356 Basel earthquake\, Double Concerto (Brahms)
 \, Pere Areny\, Félicette\, Social…
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DESCRIPTION:October 19 in history:\n• 1864 – American Civil War: Despit
 e incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates\, the Unio
 n army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1864-10-19-battle-of-cedar-creek\n• 1943 
 – World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra\, kill
 ing mostly Italian POWs. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 943-10-19-ms-sinfra\n• 1955 – At a meeting of its general assembly\, t
 he European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovisio
 n Song Contest. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1955-10-19
 -history-of-the-eurovision-song-contest\n• 1965 – Vietnam War: The Sie
 ge of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of
  the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1965-10-19-siege-of-plei-me\n• 2005 – Hurricane Wi
 lma (pictured) became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a
  minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg). /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-10-19-hurricane-wilma\n\nBorn 1850: Ann
 ie Smith Peck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Smith_Peck\nBorn 1926: M
 arjorie Tallchief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Tallchief\nDied 1
 950: Edna St. Vincent Millay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincen
 t_Millay\nBorn 1968: Yayan Ruhian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayan_Ruhi
 an\n\nPictured: Hurricane Wilma northeast of Honduras.
SUMMARY:📅 October 19 · Battle of Cedar Creek\, MS Sinfra\, History of t
 he Eurovision Song Contest\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 20 in history:\n• 1936 – British woman Mabel Freer 
 was refused entry to Australia after failing a dictation test given in Ita
 lian\, leading to a debate over Australia's immigration policy. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1936-10-20-mabel-freer\n• 1944 –
  World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously\, General
  Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippin
 es. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-10-20-battle-of-l
 eyte\n• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson a
 nd his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey Presiden
 t Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1973-10-20-saturday-night-massacre\n• 1986 
 – Soviet Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed after overrunning the runway at Ku
 ibyshev Airport\, killing 70 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1986-10-20-aeroflot-flight-6502\n• 2022 – Protests
  broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared h
 is intentions to extend his rule by another two years. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-2022-10-20-2022-chadian-protests\n\nDied 1122
 : Ralph d'Escures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_d%27Escures\nBorn 19
 20: Janet Jagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Jagan\nBorn 1935: Jerr
 y Orbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Orbach\nDied 2024: Michael Ne
 wman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newman_%28actor%29\n\nPictured:
  Mahamat Déby.
SUMMARY:📅 October 20 · Mabel Freer\, Battle of Leyte\, Saturday Night M
 assacre\, Aeroflot Flight 6502\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 21 in history:\n• 1096 – First Crusade: At the Batt
 le of Civetot\, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of th
 e People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1096-10-21-battle-of-civetot\n• 1854 – Florence 
 Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman 
 Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
  /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1854-10-21-florence-night
 ingale\n• 1944 – World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen co
 ncluded\, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the A
 llies. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-10-21-battle-o
 f-aachen\n• 1966 – A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan\, Wales\,
  killing 144 people\, mostly schoolchildren. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1966-10-21-aberfan-disaster\n• 1994 – In Seoul\, So
 uth Korea\, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the
  Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1994-10-21-seongsu-bridge-disaster\n\nDied 1266: Birger Jarl h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Jarl\nDied 1662: Henry Lawes https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lawes\nBorn 1929: Ursula K. Le Guin https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin\nBorn 1981: Nemanja Vidić https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemanja_Vidi%C4%87\n\nPictured: Aftermath of the Seong
 su Bridge disaster.
SUMMARY:📅 October 21 · Battle of Civetot\, Florence Nightingale\, Battl
 e of Aachen\, Aberfan disaster\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 22 in history:\n• 1707 – In one of the worst mariti
 me disasters in the history of the British Isles\, at least 1\,400 sailors
  on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather (pictured) off the I
 sles of Scilly. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1707-10-22
 -scilly-naval-disaster-of-1707\n• 1940 – After evading Vichy French an
 d Francoist Spanish authorities\, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot ar
 rived in London\, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-10-22-belgian-gover
 nment-in-exile\n• 1945 – Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston\, 
 South Carolina\, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company
  that lasted more than five months. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/e
 vents/otd-1945-10-22-1945-1946-charleston-cigar-factory-strik\n• 1964 
 – The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-
 Bang was published posthumously. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1964-10-22-chitty-chitty-bang-bang\n• 1989 – TAN-SAHSA Flight 4
 14 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport\, killing 131 o
 ut of 146 people onboard. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1989-10-22-tan-sahsa-flight-414\n• 2005 – Bellview Airlines Flight 210
  crashed in Ogun State\, Nigeria\, killing all 117 people on board. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-10-22-bellview-airlines-fli
 ght-210\n\nBorn 1850: Charles Kingston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charl
 es_Kingston\nBorn 1925: Edith Kawelohea McKinzie https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Edith_Kawelohea_McKinzie\nDied 1972: James K. Baxter https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/James_K._Baxter\nDied 2012: Betty Binns Fletcher https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Binns_Fletcher\n\nPictured: Scilly naval disaster
 .
SUMMARY:📅 October 22 · Scilly naval disaster of 1707\, Belgian governme
 nt in exile\, 1945–1946…
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DESCRIPTION:October 23 in history:\n• 1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath
  ended the Danish Civil War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1157-10-23-battle-of-grathe-heath\n• 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont f
 lew his biplane 14-bis for 50 metres (160 ft) at an altitude of about four
  metres (13 ft). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1906-10-2
 3-alberto-santos-dumont\n• 1942 – World War II: Japanese troops began 
 an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the
  Solomon Islands from American forces. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1942-10-23-battle-for-henderson-field\n• 1956 – The Hunga
 rian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration that attracted t
 housands while marching through central Budapest to the parliament buildin
 g. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1956-10-23-hungarian-re
 volution-of-1956\n• 2011 – During the Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix\
 , Marco Simoncelli (pictured) collided with two other riders\, resulting i
 n his death due to serious trauma to the head\, neck\, and chest. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-10-23-2011-malaysian-motorcyc
 le-grand-prix\n\nBorn 1796: Stefano Franscini https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Stefano_Franscini\nBorn 1986: Emilia Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Emilia_Clarke\nDied 2004: Bill Nicholson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
 ill_Nicholson_%28footballer%29\nDied 2025: Otto Barch https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Otto_Barch\n\nPictured: Marco Simoncelli in 2011.
SUMMARY:📅 October 23 · Battle of Grathe Heath\, Alberto Santos-Dumont\,
  Battle for Henderson Field\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 24 in history:\n• 1885 – The Russian ship Dmitry ra
 n aground in Whitby\, an incident that inspired the arrival of Count Dracu
 la to England in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel (cover pictured). /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1885-10-24-russian-ship-dmitry\n• 1929
  – On "Black Thursday"\, the New York Stock Exchange lost 11 percent of 
 its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading\, marking the beginnin
 g of the Great Depression. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1929-10-24-wall-street-crash-of-1929\n• 1930 – The Pacification Junta
  deposed Brazillian president Washington Luís\, ending the Brazilian Revo
 lution of 1930. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1930-10-24
 -brazilian-military-junta-of-1930\n• 2004 – English football club Manc
 hester United defeated rivals Arsenal 2–0 in the Battle of the Buffet\, 
 ending the latter's record-breaking unbeaten run. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2004-10-24-battle-of-the-buffet\n• 2015 – Lam 
 Wing-kee\, the owner of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong\, known for publis
 hing political books banned in mainland China\, was abducted by Chinese au
 thorities. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-10-24-caus
 eway-bay-books-disappearances\n\nBorn 1830: Marianne North https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Marianne_North\nDied 1915: Désiré Charnay https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Charnay\nBorn 1925: Luciano Berio https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio\nDied 1970: Richard Hofstadter https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter\n\nPictured: ''Dracula'' by Bram
  Stoker.
SUMMARY:📅 October 24 · Russian ship Dmitry\, Wall Street crash of 1929\
 , Brazilian military junta of…
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DESCRIPTION:October 25 in history:\n• 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under 
 Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month sie
 ge in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1147-10-25-siege-of-lisbon\n• 
 1920 – Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a hu
 nger strike in Brixton Prison\, bringing the Irish struggle for independen
 ce to international attention. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1920-10-25-terence-macswiney\n• 1929 – Following a series of simi
 lar actions against other sculptures\, hundreds of students at Armstrong C
 ollege in Newcastle tarred and feathered Statue of Industry (pictured)\, c
 reated by the college's master of sculpture Herbert Maryon. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1929-10-25-statue-of-industry\n• 1944 
 – \, the U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any o
 ther American submarine\, sank when it was struck by its own torpedo.\n•
  2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java\, Indonesia\, began an increasingly
  violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-2010-10-25-2010-eruptions-of-mount-merapi\n\n
 Born 1825: Johann Strauss II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_
 II\nBorn 1870: Elsa Reger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Reger\nDied 1
 920: Alexander of Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece
 \nDied 1930: Matthew McCauley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McCaul
 ey_%28politician%29\n\nPictured: Students dancing around ''Statue of Indus
 try'' after tarring and feathering it.
SUMMARY:📅 October 25 · Siege of Lisbon\, Terence MacSwiney\, Statue of 
 Industry\, \, the U.S. Navy…
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DESCRIPTION:October 26 in history:\n• 1520 – Charles V was crowned as H
 oly Roman Emperor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1520-10
 -26-charles-v-holy-roman-emperor\n• 1863 – The Football Association\, 
 world's first governing body of association football\, was founded in Lond
 on. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1863-10-26-the-footbal
 l-association\n• 1906 – The Illinois Memorial\, honoring Union army so
 ldiers from Illinois who fought at the Siege of Vicksburg\, was dedicated 
 at Vicksburg National Military Park. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1906-10-26-illinois-memorial\n• 1921 – The Chicago Theatre 
 (pictured)\, the oldest surviving grand movie palace\, opened. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-10-26-chicago-theatre\n• 2001 
 – President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law\, significant
 ly expanding the authority of United States law enforcement agencies. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2001-10-26-patriot-act\n\nDied
  1631: Michael Maestlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maestlin\nBo
 rn 1919: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza
 _Pahlavi\nBorn 1996: Rebecca Tunney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_
 Tunney\nDied 2021: Walter Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Smith
 \n\nPictured: Chicago Theatre.
SUMMARY:📅 October 26 · Charles V\, Holy Roman Emperor\, The Football As
 sociation\, Illinois Memorial\,…
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DESCRIPTION:October 27 in history:\n• 1775 – King George III expanded o
 n his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech fro
 m the throne at the opening of Parliament. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1775-10-27-proclamation-of-rebellion\n• 1942 – The Em
 pire of Japan achieved a pyrrhic victory against the United States at the 
 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1942-10-27-battle-of-the-santa-cruz-islands\n• 1980 – The Chun
  Doo-hwan government arrested 153 people related to the Jogye Order\, whic
 h is considered an abuse of state power. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1980-10-27-october-27th-buddhist-persecution\n• 1992 – 
 U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler Jr. was killed in Sasebo\, Japa
 n\, for being gay\, which led to the U.S. Armed Forces' "don't ask\, don't
  tell" policy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1992-10-27-
 murder-of-allen-r-schindler-jr\n• 2011 – Michael D. Higgins (pictured)
  was elected President of Ireland with far more votes than any politician 
 in the country's history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 2011-10-27-michael-d-higgins\n\nDied 1561: Lope de Aguirre https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Aguirre\nBorn 1930: Rex Shelley https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Rex_Shelley\nBorn 1954: Jan Duursema https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Jan_Duursema\nDied 2025: Prunella Scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Prunella_Scales\n\nPictured: Michael D. Higgins.
SUMMARY:📅 October 27 · Proclamation of Rebellion\, Battle of the Santa 
 Cruz Islands\, October 27th…
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DESCRIPTION:October 28 in history:\n• 312 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
 : Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Br
 idge in Rome. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0312-10-28-b
 attle-of-the-milvian-bridge\n• 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous was cro
 wned King of Bohemia\, although George of Poděbrady remained in control o
 f the government. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1453-10-
 28-ladislaus-the-posthumous\n• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Ma
 ritime Regiment of Foot\, the forerunner to the Royal Marines\, was establ
 ished at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company in London. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1664-10-28-royal-marines\n• 18
 86 – In New York Harbor\, U.S. president Grover Cleveland dedicated the 
 Statue of Liberty (pictured)\, a gift from France commemorating the Declar
 ation of Independence. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-188
 6-10-28-statue-of-liberty\n• 2013 – The first terrorist attack in Beij
 ing's recent history took place when members of the Turkistan Islamic Part
 y drove a vehicle into a crowd\, killing five people and injuring thirty-e
 ight others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-10-28-20
 13-tiananmen-square-attack\n\nDied 1806: Charlotte Turner Smith https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Smith_%28writer%29\nBorn 1876: Rosalie Slaug
 hter Morton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_Slaughter_Morton\nBorn 1
 986: Aki Toyosaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Toyosaki\nDied 2023: M
 atthew Perry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perry\n\nPictured: Stat
 ue of Liberty.
SUMMARY:📅 October 28 · Battle of the Milvian Bridge\, Ladislaus the Pos
 thumous\, Royal Marines\, Statue…
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DESCRIPTION:October 29 in history:\n• 1883 – The San Francisco Mint sig
 ned a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage (coin pictured) for the Ha
 waiian Kingdom. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1883-10-29
 -kalakaua-coinage\n• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense For
 ces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab v
 illage of Safsaf. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1948-10-
 29-safsaf-massacre\n• 1955 – An explosion\, likely caused by a World W
 ar II–era naval mine\, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harb
 or of Sevastopol\, with the loss of 608 men. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1955-10-29-italian-battleship-giulio-cesare\n• 1999 
 – About 10\,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever 
 recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Od
 isha near Bhubaneswar. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-199
 9-10-29-1999-odisha-cyclone\n• 2007 – Somali pirates hijacked a North 
 Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-10-29-dai-hong-dan-incident\n\nBorn 187
 5: Marie of Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Romania\nDied 1
 924: Frances Hodgson Burnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson
 _Burnett\nDied 1940: Phan Bội Châu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_B
 %E1%BB%99i_Ch%C3%A2u\nBorn 1989: Primož Roglič https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Primo%C5%BE_Rogli%C4%8D\n\nPictured: Kalākaua dime.
SUMMARY:📅 October 29 · Kalākaua coinage\, Safsaf massacre\, Italian ba
 ttleship Giulio Cesare\, 1999…
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DESCRIPTION:October 30 in history:\n• 1888 – Lobengula\, King of Matabe
 leland\, granted the Rudd Concession (pictured) to agents of Cecil Rhodes\
 , leading to the creation of the British South Africa Company. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1888-10-30-rudd-concession\n• 1960 
 – At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh\, Michael Woodruff performed the f
 irst successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-10-30-michael-woodruff\n• 1965 
 – English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to
  Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne\, Australia – a pivotal
  moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-10-30-white-shift-dress-of-jea
 n-shrimpton\n• 2010 – American comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbe
 rt hosted the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington\, D.C. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-10-30-rally-to-restore-s
 anity-and-or-fear\n• 2020 – A magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred in the
  Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey\, triggering a tsunami and causing 1
 19 deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2020-10-30-2020
 -aegean-sea-earthquake\n\nBorn 1735: John Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/John_Adams\nBorn 1825: Adelaide Anne Procter https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Adelaide_Anne_Procter\nDied 1915: Charles Tupper https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Charles_Tupper\nDied 2024: Matt Peacock https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Matt_Peacock\n\nPictured: Rudd Concession.
SUMMARY:📅 October 30 · Rudd Concession\, Michael Woodruff\, White shift
  dress of Jean Shrimpton\, Rally…
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DESCRIPTION:October 31 in history:\n• 475 – Romulus Augustulus took the
  throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-0475-10-31-romulus-augustulus\n• 1517 –
  Martin Luther (pictured) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of A
 ll Saints' Church in Wittenberg\, marking the beginning of the Protestant 
 Reformation. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1517-10-31-ni
 nety-five-theses\n• 1999 – Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in M
 elbourne\, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo\,
  non-stop\, and unassisted. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1999-10-31-jesse-martin\n• 2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 coll
 ided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang 
 Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain\, killing 83 pe
 ople aboard. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2000-10-31-si
 ngapore-airlines-flight-006\n• 2017 – An Uzbek immigrant drove a rente
 d truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan\, New York City\, kil
 ling eight people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2017-10
 -31-2017-new-york-city-truck-attack\n\nBorn 1795: John Keats /travel/calen
 dars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-john-keats-q82083\nBorn 1860: Juliet
 te Gordon Low https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Gordon_Low\nDied 1942
 : Bill Kibby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kibby\nDied 2013: Chris Ch
 ase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chase\n\nPictured: Martin Luther.
SUMMARY:📅 October 31 · Romulus Augustulus\, Ninety-five Theses\, Jesse 
 Martin\, Singapore Airlines…
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DESCRIPTION:November 1 in history:\n• 1141 – After Empress Matilda rele
 ased her rival King Stephen\, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester\, h
 er strongest supporter\, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known 
 as The Anarchy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1141-11-01
 -stephen-king-of-england\n• 1824 – The disposable ship Columbus (pictu
 red) arrived in the The Downs off England\, becoming\, at that time\, the 
 largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. /travel/calendars/momen
 ts-in-history/events/otd-1824-11-01-columbus-1824-ship\n• 1914 – World
  War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force depart
 ed Albany\, Western Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1914-11-01-first-australian-imperial-force\n• 1956 – The Indian s
 tates Kerala\, Andhra Pradesh\, and Karnataka were formally created under 
 the States Reorganisation Act. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1956-11-01-kerala\n• 1972 – Elvis on Tour\, a concert film that d
 ocumented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States\, opened. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-11-01-elvis-on-tour\n\nBo
 rn 1853: Lie Kim Hok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_Kim_Hok\nBorn 1957:
  Peter Ostrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ostrum\nDied 2015: Fred 
 Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson\nDied 2020: Lady Eliz
 abeth Shakerley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Elizabeth_Shakerley\n\n
 Pictured: The ''Columbus''.
SUMMARY:📅 November 1 · Stephen\, King of England\, Columbus (1824 ship)
 \, First Australian Imperial…
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DESCRIPTION:November 2 in history:\n• 1880 – James A. Garfield was elec
 ted as president of the United States\; the election is the closest to dat
 e by popular vote margin. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1880-11-02-1880-united-states-presidential-election\n• 1932 – The Aust
 ralian military began a "war against emus"\, flightless native birds blame
 d for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1932-11-02-emu-war\n• 1949 – The Dutch–
 Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to t
 ransfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indon
 esia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1949-11-02-dutch-ind
 onesian-round-table-conference\n• 1994 – A lightning strike ruptured t
 hree oil tanks near Dronka\, Egypt\, causing a flood that killed 469 peopl
 e. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1994-11-02-1994-durunka
 -floods-and-lightning-strike\n• 2000 – As members of Expedition 1\, Am
 erican astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev a
 nd Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive a
 t the International Space Station. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-2000-11-02-expedition-1\n\nBorn 1844: John J. Loud https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Loud\nDied 1925: William Pūnohu White https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P%C5%ABnohu_White\nDied 1933: Gao Qifeng https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Qifeng\nBorn 1965: Shah Rukh Khan https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Rukh_Khan\n\nPictured: Crew of Expedition&nbsp\;1.
SUMMARY:📅 November 2 · 1880 United States presidential election\, Emu W
 ar\, Dutch–Indonesian Round…
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DESCRIPTION:November 3 in history:\n• 1812 – French invasion of Russia:
  As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat\, its rear guard was defeat
 ed at the Battle of Vyazma. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1812-11-03-battle-of-vyazma\n• 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an up
 rising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1881-11-03-mapuche-uprising-of-1881\n• 1943 
 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at 
 Majdanek concentration camp. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/o
 td-1943-11-03-operation-harvest-festival\n• 1954 – The first film feat
 uring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) n
 ationwide in Japan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1954-1
 1-03-godzilla-1954-film\n• 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı\, a leader of the u
 ltra-nationalist Grey Wolves\, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk\, T
 urkey\, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicit
 y in organized crime. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1996
 -11-03-abdullah-catli\n\nDied 1599: Andrew Báthory https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Andrew_B%C3%A1thory\nBorn 1943: Bert Jansch https://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Bert_Jansch\nBorn 1949: Anna Wintour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Anna_Wintour\nDied 2025: Kim Yong-nam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Y
 ong-nam\n\nPictured: ''Godzilla'' film poster.
SUMMARY:📅 November 3 · Battle of Vyazma\, Mapuche uprising of 1881\, Op
 eration Harvest Festival\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 4 in history:\n• 1780 – Túpac Amaru II led a rebe
 llion of Aymara\, Quechua\, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bo
 urbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1780-11-04-rebellion-of-tupac-amaru-ii\n• 1922 
 – The tomb of Tutankhamun (pictured) was discovered by a team led by Bri
 tish Egyptologist Howard Carter. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1922-11-04-tomb-of-tutankhamun\n• 1924 – In a special election 
 in Wyoming\, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a 
 governor in the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1924-11-04-1924-wyoming-gubernatorial-special-elect\n• 1970 – Aut
 horities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child\, pseudonymous
 ly known as Genie\, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolati
 on. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-11-04-genie-feral
 -child\n• 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was a
 ssassinated by Yigal Amir\, a right-wing extremist\, at a peace rally at K
 ings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1995-11-04-assassination-of-yitzhak-rabin\n\nBorn 1631: Mary\, Pr
 incess Royal and Princess of Orange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%2C_
 Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange\nDied 1658: Antoine Le Maistre https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Le_Maistre\nBorn 1908: Joseph Rotblat htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat\nDied 1980: Elsie MacGill https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill\n\nPictured: Yitzhak Rabin.
SUMMARY:📅 November 4 · Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II\, tomb of Tutankham
 un\, 1924 Wyoming gubernatorial…
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DESCRIPTION:November 5 in history:\n• 1556 – At the Second Battle of Pa
 nipat\, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu\, the Hindu emper
 or of north India. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1556-11
 -05-second-battle-of-panipat\n• 1854 – Crimean War: Despite being seve
 rely outnumbered\, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions\, the allied arm
 ies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians in present-day 
 Inkerman\, Ukraine. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1854-1
 1-05-battle-of-inkerman\n• 1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett\, 
 Washington\, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Worke
 rs of the World resulted in seven deaths. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1916-11-05-everett-massacre\n• 1944 – World War II: Al
 lied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1944-11-05-bombing-of-singapor
 e-1944-1945\n• 1990 – Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pic
 tured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-11-05-assassination-of-meir
 -kahane\n\nDied 1879: James Clerk Maxwell /travel/calendars/famous-lives/e
 vents/famous-lives-james-clerk-maxwell-q9095\nBorn 1913: Vivien Leigh http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Leigh\nDied 1975: Edward Tatum https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tatum\nBorn 1984: Eliud Kipchoge https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Eliud_Kipchoge\n\nPictured: Meir Kahane.
SUMMARY:📅 November 5 · Second Battle of Panipat\, Battle of Inkerman\, 
 Everett massacre\, Bombing of…
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DESCRIPTION:November 6 in history:\n• 1856 – The first story from the c
 ollection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was s
 ubmitted for publication. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1856-11-06-scenes-of-clerical-life\n• 1939 – As part of their plan to 
 eradicate the Polish intellectual elite\, the Gestapo arrested 184 profess
 ors\, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pict
 ured) in Kraków. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-11-
 06-sonderaktion-krakau\n• 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his c
 ar on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet\, Berkshire\, England\, causing a
  derailment that also killed six people on the train. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2004-11-06-ufton-nervet-rail-crash\n• 2012 
 – Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to 
 the United States Senate. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 2012-11-06-tammy-baldwin\n\nPictured: Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian 
 University.
SUMMARY:📅 November 6 · Scenes of Clerical Life\, Sonderaktion Krakau\, 
 Ufton Nervet rail crash\, Tammy…
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DESCRIPTION:November 7 in history:\n• 680 – The Third Council of Consta
 ntinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergi
 sm and monothelitism. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0680
 -11-07-third-council-of-constantinople\n• 1825 – Jereboam O. Beauchamp
  murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp\; Beauchamp later became th
 e first person legally executed in the state. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1825-11-07-beauchamp-sharp-tragedy\n• 1917 – World
  War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman 
 garrison. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1917-11-07-third
 -battle-of-gaza\n• 1972 – A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Brid
 ge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured)\,
  which killed ten people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1972-11-07-1972-sidney-lanier-bridge-collapse\n• 1987 – Tunisian prime
  minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bou
 rguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1987-11-07-1987-tunisian-coup-
 d-etat\n\nDied 1562: Maldeo Rathore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldeo_R
 athore\nBorn 1805: Thomas Brassey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bra
 ssey\nBorn 1830: Emanuele Luigi Galizia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eman
 uele_Luigi_Galizia\nDied 2015: Ri Ul-sol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_
 Ul-sol\n\nPictured: Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse.
SUMMARY:📅 November 7 · Third Council of Constantinople\, Beauchamp–Sh
 arp Tragedy\, Third Battle of…
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DESCRIPTION:November 8 in history:\n• 960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Havi
 ng been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo\, Byzantine forc
 es led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated th
 eir army. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0960-11-08-battl
 e-of-andrassos\n• 1520 – After his coronation as king of Sweden\, Chri
 stian II (pictured) gave the order to execute nearly 100 people\, mostly n
 oblemen\, despite promises of general amnesty. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1520-11-08-stockholm-bloodbath\n• 1940 – The Ital
 ian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Ital
 ians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1940-11-08-battle-of-elaia-kalamas\n• 2013 – Typhoon Haiy
 an made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines\, killing at lea
 st 6\,300 people\, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in 
 modern history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2013-11-08
 -typhoon-haiyan\n\nBorn 1555: Nyaungyan Min https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Nyaungyan_Min\nBorn 1943: Leslie Webster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les
 lie_Webster_%28art_historian%29\nDied 1960: Subroto Mukerjee https://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Subroto_Mukerjee\nDied 1965: Dorothy Kilgallen https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kilgallen\n\nPictured: King Christian II.
SUMMARY:📅 November 8 · Battle of Andrassos\, Stockholm Bloodbath\, Batt
 le of Elaia–Kalamas\, Typhoon…
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DESCRIPTION:November 9 in history:\n• 1822 – USS Alligator engaged thre
 e pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-pi
 racy operations of the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1822-11-09-action-of-9-november-1822\n• 1913 – A severe bl
 izzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North Ame
 rica\, destroying 19 ships and 68\,300 tons of cargo\, and killing more th
 an 250 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1913-11-09-
 great-lakes-storm-of-1913\n• 1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan D
 emocratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured)\, which is
  again in use today\, with slight modifications\, by the present-day Repub
 lic of Azerbaijan. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1918-11
 -09-flag-of-azerbaijan\n• 1985 – At age 22\, Garry Kasparov became the
  then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Kar
 pov. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-11-09-garry-kasp
 arov\n• 2019 – The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams\
 , both with undefeated records thus far that season\, played in a "Game of
  the Century". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-11-09-
 2019-lsu-vs-alabama-football-game\n\nBorn 1580: Johannes Narssius https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Narssius\nDied 1854: Elizabeth Schuyler Ham
 ilton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton\nBorn 1935
 : Bob Gibson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Gibson\nDied 1970: Charles 
 de Gaulle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle\n\nPictured: Fla
 g of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
SUMMARY:📅 November 9 · Action of 9 November 1822\, Great Lakes Storm of
  1913\, Flag of Azerbaijan\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 10 in history:\n• 1599 – At the culmination of a S
 wedish civil war\, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were 
 publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1599-11-10-abo-bloodbath\n• 1898 – White supremacists s
 eized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre\,
 (newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government 
 being overthrown in United States history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1898-11-10-wilmington-massacre\n• 1940 – An earthquak
 e registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-11-10-1940-vrancea-earthquake\n• 1
 995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others f
 rom the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the
  Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1995-11-10-ken-saro-wiwa\n• 2009 – A skirmish occu
 rred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Islan
 d in the Yellow Sea. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-
 11-10-daecheong-incident\n\nBorn 1865: Władysław Umiński https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Umi%C5%84ski\nBorn 1925: Richard Burto
 n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burton\nBorn 1975: Halina Reijn ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halina_Reijn\nDied 2015: Klaus Roth https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Roth\n\nPictured: Announcement in the Wilmington
  Messenger on November 9\, 1898.
SUMMARY:📅 November 10 · Åbo Bloodbath\, Wilmington massacre\, 1940 Vra
 ncea earthquake\, Ken Saro-Wiwa\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 11 in history:\n• 1805 – War of the Third Coalitio
 n: French\, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle
  of Dürenstein. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1805-11-1
 1-battle-of-durenstein\n• 1920 – In London\, the Cenotaph was unveiled
  and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of
  the First World War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920
 -11-11-the-cenotaph\n• 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launche
 d the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the 
 Italians in the Battle of Taranto. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1940-11-11-battle-of-taranto\n• 1960 – A coup attempt by the 
 Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was c
 rushed after he falsely promised reform\, allowing loyalists to rescue him
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-11-11-1960-south-vi
 etnamese-coup-attempt\n• 1965 – Rhodesia\, led by Prime Minister Ian S
 mith (pictured)\, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingd
 om. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-11-11-rhodesia-s-
 unilateral-declaration-of-ind\n\nDied 405: Arsacius of Tarsus https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Arsacius_of_Tarsus\nBorn 1885: George S. Patton https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton\nDied 1968: Jeanne Demessieux https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Demessieux\nDied 2011: Francisco Blake Mor
 a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Blake_Mora\n\nPictured: Ian Smit
 h.
SUMMARY:📅 November 11 · Battle of Dürenstein\, the Cenotaph\, Battle o
 f Taranto\, 1960 South Vietnamese…
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DESCRIPTION:November 12 in history:\n• 1330 – Led by the voivode Basara
 b I\, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Ba
 ttle of Posada (depicted). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1330-11-12-battle-of-posada\n• 1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Ki
 ngdom of Serbs\, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to estab
 lish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1920-11-12-treaty-of-rapallo-1920\n• 1940 – Worl
 d War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-11-12-battle-of-gabon\n• 1970 
 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast o
 f East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh)\, killing at least 250\,000 peopl
 e. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1970-11-12-1970-bhola-c
 yclone\n• 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led 
 to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards\, including Hassan
  Tehrani Moghaddam\, a key figure in Iran's missile program. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-11-12-hassan-tehrani-moghaddam\n\n
 Born 1840: Auguste Rodin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin\nDied
  1969: Liu Shaoqi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi\nBorn 1985: Ben
  Aldridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Aldridge\nDied 2018: Stan Lee 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee\n\nPictured: The Battle of Posada.
SUMMARY:📅 November 12 · Battle of Posada\, Treaty of Rapallo (1920)\, B
 attle of Gabon\, 1970 Bhola…
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DESCRIPTION:November 13 in history:\n• 1642 – First English Civil War: 
 Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle
  of Turnham Green near Turnham Green\, Middlesex. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1642-11-13-battle-of-turnham-green\n• 1775 – A
 merican Revolutionary War: American forces captured Montreal without signi
 ficant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1775-11-13-invasion-of-quebec-1775\n• 1940 
 – Walt Disney's Fantasia\, the first commercial film shown with stereoph
 onic sound\, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-11-13-fantasia-1940-film\n• 
 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted\, causing a volcan
 ic mudslide that buried the town of Armero\, Colombia\, killing approximat
 ely 23\,000 people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-1
 1-13-armero-tragedy\n• 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris p
 erpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-11-13-november-2015-p
 aris-attacks\n\nBorn 1715: Dorothea Erxleben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Dorothea_Erxleben\nDied 1955: Moshe Pesach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Moshe_Pesach\nDied 1989: Franz Joseph II\, Prince of Liechtenstein https:/
 /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph_II%2C_Prince_of_Liechtenstein\nBorn 20
 02: Giovanni Reyna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Reyna\n\nPicture
 d: Nevado del Ruiz.
SUMMARY:📅 November 13 · Battle of Turnham Green\, Invasion of Quebec (1
 775)\, Fantasia (1940 film)\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 14 in history:\n• 1680 – German astronomer Gottfri
 ed Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680\, the first comet to be discov
 ered by telescope. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1680-11
 -14-great-comet-of-1680\n• 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed 
 the first takeoff from a ship (pictured)\, flying from a makeshift deck on
  in Hampton Roads\, Virginia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1910-11-14-eugene-burton-ely\n• 1967 – American physicist Theodore
  Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems\, the world's first 
 laser. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1967-11-14-theodore
 -maiman\n• 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932\, chartered by the Marsh
 all University football team\, crashed into a hill near Ceredo\, West Virg
 inia\, killing all 75 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-1970-11-14-southern-airways-flight-932\n• 2010 – Red Bull
  Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the
  final race of the season\, becoming the youngest Formula One champion. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-11-14-sebastian-vettel\
 n\nBorn 1805: Fanny Mendelssohn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Mendel
 ssohn\nBorn 1840: Claude Monet /travel/calendars/painters/events/painters-
 claude-monet-q296\nBorn 1920: Mary Greyeyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Mary_Greyeyes\nDied 2011: Neil Heywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_
 Heywood\n\nPictured: Eugene Burton Ely taking off from {{nowrap.
SUMMARY:📅 November 14 · Great Comet of 1680\, Eugene Burton Ely\, Theod
 ore Maiman\, Southern Airways…
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DESCRIPTION:November 15 in history:\n• 655 – Penda of Mercia and Æthel
 here of East Anglia were defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of
  the Winwaed in Yorkshire\, England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-0655-11-15-penda-of-mercia\n• 1864 – American Civil War: Un
 ion army general William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) began his March to th
 e Sea\, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using
  scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah\, Georgia. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1864-11-15-william-tecumseh-s
 herman\n• 1908 – As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory\,
  the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1908-11-15-atrocities-in-the
 -congo-free-state\n• 1922 – Fountain of Time\, in Chicago's Washington
  Park\, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the Unite
 d States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1922-11-15-fountain-of-time\n• 2000 – 
 Edoardo Agnelli\, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli\, was 
 found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin\, Italy. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2000-11-15-edoardo-agnelli\n\nDied 1630
 : Johannes Kepler /travel/calendars/famous-lives/events/famous-lives-johan
 nes-kepler-q8963\nBorn 1865: Eugénie Hamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Eug%C3%A9nie_Hamer\nBorn 1925: Howard Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 Howard_Baker\nDied 2024: Yuriko\, Princess Mikasa https://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Yuriko%2C_Princess_Mikasa\n\nPictured: William Tecumseh Sherman.
SUMMARY:📅 November 15 · Penda of Mercia\, William Tecumseh Sherman\, at
 rocities in the Congo Free State\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 16 in history:\n• 1776 – American Revolutionary Wa
 r: A Dutch fort on Sint Eustatius fired The First Salute to an American br
 ig (pictured)\, marking the first international recognition of the America
 n flag. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1776-11-16-the-fir
 st-salute\n• 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Re
 bellion\, Louis Riel\, a Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba"\,
  was hanged for high treason. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1885-11-16-louis-riel\n• 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first
  synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel\, Switzerland. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1938-11-16-albert-hofmann\n• 1967 
 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport\, Rus
 sia\, killing all 107 people aboard. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1967-11-16-aeroflot-flight-2230\n• 1981 – About 30 million 
 people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on t
 he television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American 
 soap opera history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1981-1
 1-16-luke-and-laura\n\nDied 1005: Ælfric of Abingdon https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Abingdon\nBorn 1720: Charles-Antoine Campion http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Antoine_Campion\nDied 1960: Clark Gable 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable\nBorn 2000: Hannah Hampton https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Hampton\n\nPictured: ''Andrew Doria''.
SUMMARY:📅 November 16 · The First Salute\, Louis Riel\, Albert Hofmann\
 , Aeroflot Flight 2230\, Luke and…
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DESCRIPTION:November 17 in history:\n• 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa\, who 
 was already King of Poland\, succeeded his father John III as King of Swed
 en. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1592-11-17-sigismund-i
 ii-vasa\n• 1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay\, India\, during the vis
 it of Edward\, Prince of Wales\, leading to at least 58 deaths. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1921-11-17-prince-of-wales-riots\n
 • 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattel
 berg\, New Guinea\, against Japanese forces\, initiating the Battle of Sat
 telberg. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1943-11-17-battle
 -of-sattelberg\n• 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full t
 emporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1950-11-17-14th-dalai-lama\n• 2013 – Tatarstan
  Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan Internatio
 nal Airport\, Russia\, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the r
 evocation of the airline's operating certificate. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2013-11-17-tatarstan-airlines-flight-363\n\nBorn 1
 412: Zanobi Strozzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanobi_Strozzi\nDied 178
 0: Bernardo Bellotto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bellotto\nBorn
  1990: Ng On-yee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng_On-yee\nDied 2017: Rikar
 d Wolff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikard_Wolff\n\nPictured: 14th Dalai
  Lama.
SUMMARY:📅 November 17 · Sigismund III Vasa\, Prince of Wales riots\, Ba
 ttle of Sattelberg\, 14th Dalai…
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DESCRIPTION:November 18 in history:\n• 1210 – Otto IV\, Holy Roman Empe
 ror\, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to 
 annul the Concordat of Worms. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1210-11-18-otto-iv-holy-roman-emperor\n• 1865 – "The Celebrated Ju
 mping Frog of Calaveras County" was published\, becoming the first great s
 uccess of American author Mark Twain. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1865-11-18-the-celebrated-jumping-frog-of-calaveras\n• 1872 
 – American suffragist Susan B. Anthony (pictured) was arrested and later
  fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlie
 r. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1872-11-18-susan-b-anth
 ony\n• 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St 
 Pancras tube station in London. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1987-11-18-king-s-cross-fire\n• 2011 – The sandbox video game Mi
 necraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2011-11-18-minecraft\n\nDied 1100: Tho
 mas of Bayeux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_of_Bayeux\nBorn 1810: A
 sa Gray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray\nBorn 1945: Wilma Mankiller
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller\nBorn 2001: Billie Eilish h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish\n\nPictured: Susan B. Anthony.
SUMMARY:📅 November 18 · Otto IV\, Holy Roman Emperor\, The Celebrated J
 umping Frog of Calaveras County\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 19 in history:\n• 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. 
 president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedicati
 on of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg\, Pennsylvania. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1863-11-19-gettysburg-address\n
 • 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the 
 Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces\, turning the
  tide of the battle in their favour. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1942-11-19-operation-uranus\n• 1985 – The first of five sum
 mits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S
 . president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1985-11-19-geneva-summit-1985\n• 2005 – Iraq War: A g
 roup of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-11-19-haditha-massacr
 e\n• 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mi
 ne in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a ce
 ntury. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-11-19-pike-riv
 er-mine-disaster\n\nDied 1665: Nicolas Poussin /travel/calendars/painters/
 events/painters-nicolas-poussin-q41554\nBorn 1700: Jean-Antoine Nollet htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Antoine_Nollet\nBorn 1875: Mikhail Kalinin
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin\nDied 2023: Rosalynn Carter
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter\n\nPictured: Ronald Reagan 
 (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva.
SUMMARY:📅 November 19 · Gettysburg Address\, Operation Uranus\, Geneva 
 Summit (1985)\, Haditha massacre\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 20 in history:\n• 1820 – The American whaleship Es
 sex sank 2\,000 nautical miles (3\,700 km) west of the western coast of So
 uth America after it was attacked by a sperm whale\, an event which inspir
 ed the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (pictured). /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1820-11-20-essex-whaleship\n• 1917 – First
  World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British forces having initial
  success over Germany's Hindenburg Line. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1917-11-20-battle-of-cambrai-1917\n• 1985 – Windows 1.0
 \, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public\, was re
 leased. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-11-20-windows
 -1-0\n• 1990 – Andrei Chikatilo\, one of the Soviet Union's most proli
 fic serial killers\, was arrested in Novocherkassk. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1990-11-20-andrei-chikatilo\n• 2003 – Suicid
 e bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank 
 in Istanbul\, killing 31 people\, including consul general Roger Short and
  actor Kerem Yılmazer. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-20
 03-11-20-2003-istanbul-bombings\n\nDied 855: Theoktistos https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Theoktistos\nBorn 1925: Clytus Gottwald https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Clytus_Gottwald\nBorn 1925: Robert F. Kennedy https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy\nBorn 1983: Cri-Zelda Brits https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Cri-Zelda_Brits
SUMMARY:📅 November 20 · Essex (whaleship)\, Battle of Cambrai (1917)\, 
 Windows 1.0\, Andrei Chikatilo\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 21 in history:\n• 1620 – The Mayflower Compact\, t
 he first governing document of the Plymouth Colony\, was signed by 41 of t
 he Mayflowers passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provin
 cetown Harbor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1620-11-21-
 mayflower-compact\n• 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunda
 y in Dublin\, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents\
 , and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Cro
 ke Park. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-11-21-bloody
 -sunday-1920\n• 1945 – Manzanar (pictured)\, a camp in California for 
 the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II\, was closed. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-11-21-manzanar\n• 1980
  – A fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Par
 adise\, Nevada\, killing 85 people and injuring 650 others. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1980-11-21-mgm-grand-fire\n• 2015 – 
 The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels ba
 sed on information about potential terrorist attacks. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2015-11-21-2015-brussels-lockdown\n\nDied 1695
 : Henry Purcell /travel/calendars/composers/events/composers-henry-purcell
 -q9695\nDied 1835: James Hogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg\nBo
 rn 1870: Joe Darling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Darling\nBorn 1985:
  Carly Rae Jepsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Rae_Jepsen\n\nPictur
 ed: Manzanar.
SUMMARY:📅 November 21 · Mayflower Compact\, Bloody Sunday (1920)\, Manz
 anar\, MGM Grand fire\, 2015…
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DESCRIPTION:November 22 in history:\n• 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was
  killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of 
 the Province of North Carolina. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1718-11-22-blackbeard\n• 1873 – The French steamship Ville du Ha
 vre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank w
 ith the loss of 226 lives. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1873-11-22-ss-ville-du-havre\n• 1910 – The crews of three Brazilian w
 arships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller ve
 ssels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilia
 n Navy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1910-11-22-revolt-
 of-the-lash\n• 1978 – The serpent labret with articulated tongue (pict
 ured articulating between positions)\, "perhaps the finest Aztec gold orna
 ment to survive the crucibles of the sixteenth century"\, was sold at Soth
 eby's. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1978-11-22-serpent-
 labret-with-articulated-tongue\n• 1995 – Toy Story\, the first feature
  film created using only computer-generated imagery\, was released in thea
 ters in the United States. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1995-11-22-toy-story\n\nDied 365: Antipope Felix II https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Antipope_Felix_II\nBorn 1840: Émile Lemoine https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Lemoine\nBorn 1950: Tina Weymouth https://en.wikipedi
 a.org/wiki/Tina_Weymouth\nDied 2015: Kim Young-sam https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Kim_Young-sam
SUMMARY:📅 November 22 · Blackbeard\, SS Ville du Havre\, Revolt of the 
 Lash\, serpent labret with…
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DESCRIPTION:November 23 in history:\n• 1635 – Dutch pacification campai
 gn on Formosa: Soldiers from the Dutch East India Company (flag depicted) 
 razed the village of Mattau\, now part of modern-day Tainan\, Taiwan. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1635-11-23-dutch-east-india-co
 mpany\n• 1700 – A papal conclave\, which had been deadlocked due to co
 ncerns over how a successor would respond to the impending death of Charle
 s II of Spain\, ended with the election of Clement XI. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1700-11-23-1700-conclave\n• 1733 – Africa
 n slaves in the Danish West Indies began an insurrection in one of the ear
 liest and longest slave revolts in the Americas. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1733-11-23-1733-slave-insurrection-on-st-john\n• 
 1980 – An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy\, killing at lea
 st 2\,483 people\, injuring more than 7\,700 and leaving 250\,000 homeless
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1980-11-23-1980-irpinia-
 earthquake\n• 2007 – MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink 
 in the Southern Ocean. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-200
 7-11-23-mv-explorer-1969\n\nDied 955: Eadred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Eadred\nBorn 1890: El Lissitzky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzk
 y\nBorn 1915: Anne Burns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Burns\nBorn 19
 45: Elisabeth Leonskaja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Leonskaja\
 n\nPictured: Flag of the Dutch East India Company.
SUMMARY:📅 November 23 · Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa\, 1700 c
 onclave\, 1733 slave insurrection…
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DESCRIPTION:November 24 in history:\n• 1643 – Thirty Years' War: Holy R
 oman Empire\, Bavarian and Spanish forces led by Franz von Mercy defeated 
 the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau at the Battle
  of Tuttlingen. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1643-11-24
 -battle-of-tuttlingen\n• 1918 – The Podgorica Assembly convened in Mon
 tenegro\, with the intention of uniting with the Kingdom of Serbia. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1918-11-24-podgorica-assembly\n
 • 1925 – The Eugene O'Neill Theatre (pictured) opened on Broadway\, Ne
 w York\, with a production of the musical Mayflowers. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1925-11-24-eugene-o-neill-theatre\n• 1950 
 – The "Great Appalachian Storm"\, a large extratropical cyclone\, struck
  the east coast of the United States before moving northeast. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-11-24-great-appalachian-storm-of-
 1950\n• 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by
  a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish air
 space and ignored warnings to change course. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2015-11-24-2015-russian-sukhoi-su-24-shootdown\n\nDied 
 1577: Ismail II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_II\nBorn 1889: Kim Ch
 wajin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Chwajin\nBorn 1925: William F. Buc
 kley Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr.\nDied 2005: 
 Pat Morita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita\n\nPictured: Eugene O'
 Neill Theatre.
SUMMARY:📅 November 24 · Battle of Tuttlingen\, Podgorica Assembly\, Eug
 ene O'Neill Theatre\, Great…
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DESCRIPTION:November 25 in history:\n• 1510 – Adil Shahi–Portuguese c
 onflicts: Afonso de Albuquerque\, the governor of Portuguese India\, led a
 n armada to conquer Goa. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 510-11-25-portuguese-conquest-of-goa\n• 1940 – The de Havilland Mosqui
 to\, one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War\
 , made its first flight. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 940-11-25-de-havilland-mosquito\n• 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal si
 sters\, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo
  in the Dominican Republic\, were beaten and strangled to death. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1960-11-25-mirabal-sisters\n• 197
 0 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of 
 the Emperor of Japan\, author Yukio Mishima and a member of his militia co
 mmitted ritual suicide. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 70-11-25-yukio-mishima\n• 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the
  Netherlands\, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1975-11-25-johan-ferrier\n\nDied
  1565: Hu Zongxian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Zongxian\nBorn 1870: M
 aurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis\nDied 1885: Thoma
 s A. Hendricks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Hendricks\nBorn 195
 0: Alexis Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Wright\n\nPictured: 
 Johan Ferrier in 1975.
SUMMARY:📅 November 25 · Portuguese conquest of Goa\, de Havilland Mosqu
 ito\, Mirabal sisters\, Yukio…
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DESCRIPTION:November 26 in history:\n• 1835 – Texas Revolution: Texian 
 forces attacked a Mexican pack train\, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1835-11-26-grass-fight\n•
  1914 – A large internal explosion destroyed near Sheerness\, killing 74
 1 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1914-11
 -26-hms-bulwark-1899\n• 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political deta
 inees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-p
 rofile assassinations\, including that of former Romanian prime minister N
 icolae Iorga. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-11-26-j
 ilava-massacre\n• 1942 – A riot involving infantrymen\, military polic
 e\, and local law enforcement officers killed three people in Phoenix\, Ar
 izona. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-11-26-1942-pho
 enix-thanksgiving-day-riot\n• 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting a
 nd bombing attacks across Mumbai began\, ultimately killing 175 people and
  wounding more than 300 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-2008-11-26-2008-mumbai-attacks\n\nBorn 1657: William Derham https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Derham\nDied 1855: Adam Mickiewicz https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz\nBorn 1953: Shelley Moore Capito http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Moore_Capito\nDied 1980: Rachel Roberts 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Roberts_%28actress%29\n\nPictured: Ex
 plosion on HMS&nbsp\;''Bulwark''.
SUMMARY:📅 November 26 · Grass Fight\, A large internal explosion destro
 yed near Sheerness\, killing 741…
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DESCRIPTION:November 27 in history:\n• 1895 – Swedish chemist and indus
 trialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament\, sett
 ing aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his de
 ath. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1895-11-27-alfred-nob
 el\n• 1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities founded CARE wi
 th the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in the aftermath of World 
 War II. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-11-27-care-in
 ternational\n• 1950 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army 
 launched multiple attacks against United Nations forces\, beginning the Ba
 ttle of Chosin Reservoir. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1950-11-27-battle-of-chosin-reservoir\n• 1989 – A bomb placed by the M
 edellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate Cé
 sar Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203\, killing all 107 people on board
 \, excluding Gaviria\, who was not on the flight. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1989-11-27-avianca-flight-203\n• 2020 – Nuclea
 r physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh\, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear p
 rogram\, was assassinated\, allegedly by Mossad. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-2020-11-27-mohsen-fakhrizadeh\n\nBorn 1635: Franço
 ise d'Aubigné\, Marquise de Maintenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%
 C3%A7oise_d%27Aubign%C3%A9%2C_Marquise_de_Maintenon\nBorn 1820: Rachel Bro
 oks Gleason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Brooks%26nbsp%3BGleason\n
 Born 1935: Helmut Lachenmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Lachenma
 nn\nDied 2019: Ciputra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciputra\n\nPictured: 
 Alfred Nobel.
SUMMARY:📅 November 27 · Alfred Nobel\, CARE International\, Battle of C
 hosin Reservoir\, Avianca Flight…
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DESCRIPTION:November 28 in history:\n• 1470 – Đại Việt emperor Lê
  Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa\, beginning th
 e Champa–Đại Việt War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1470-11-28-champa-d-i-vi-t-war-1471\n• 1660 – Robert Boyle\, John 
 Wilkins\, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham Col
 lege in London to found a learned society\, now known as the Royal Society
  (coat of arms pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1660-11-28-royal-society\n• 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 pr
 emiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1811-11-28-piano-concerto-no-5-beethoven\n• 1912 – At the 
 All-Albanian Congress\, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted\, which dec
 lared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1912-11-28-assembly-of-vlore
 \n• 1925 – Grand Ole Opry\, the longest-running radio broadcast in the
  United States\, first aired on WSM in Nashville\, Tennessee. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-11-28-grand-ole-opry\n\nDied 1780
 : Esther Wheelwright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Wheelwright\nBor
 n 1894: Henry Hazlitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hazlitt\nBorn 19
 70: Richard Osman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Osman\nDied 2010: 
 Leslie Nielsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen\n\nPictured: C
 oat of arms of the Royal Society.
SUMMARY:📅 November 28 · Champa–Đại Việt War (1471)\, Royal Socie
 ty\, Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 29 in history:\n• 1854 – An estimated crowd of mor
 e than 10\,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured
 ) as a symbol of defiance in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat\,
  Australia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1854-11-29-eur
 eka-flag\n• 1890 – The National Diet of Japan\, a bicameral legislatur
 e modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster sys
 tem\, first met in Tokyo. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1890-11-29-national-diet\n• 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly
  voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine\, a plan to resolve the
  Arab–Israeli conflict in Mandatory Palestine by separating the territor
 y into Jewish and Arab states. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1947-11-29-united-nations-partition-plan-for-palest\n• 1982 – Mic
 hael Jackson's Thriller\, the best-selling album of all time\, was release
 d. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1982-11-29-thriller-alb
 um\n• 2007 – During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny\, Philippi
 ne soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a confere
 nce room at The Peninsula Manila in Makati. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-2007-11-29-manila-peninsula-siege\n\nDied 1643: Claudio 
 Monteverdi /travel/calendars/composers/events/composers-claudio-monteverdi
 -q53068\nBorn 1898: C. S. Lewis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis\
 nDied 1932: Abdullah Cevdet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Cevdet\
 nBorn 1940: Janet Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Smith_%28judge
 %29\n\nPictured: Eureka Flag.
SUMMARY:📅 November 29 · Eureka Flag\, National Diet\, United Nations Pa
 rtition Plan for Palestine\,…
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DESCRIPTION:November 30 in history:\n• 1803 – An expedition led by Fran
 cisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña\, Spain\, with the aim of vaccin
 ating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox. /travel/calenda
 rs/moments-in-history/events/otd-1803-11-30-balmis-expedition\n• 1935 
 – A college football game between the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Fr
 ogs became the first game in Texas to be broadcast nationally on radio. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1935-11-30-1935-smu-vs-tcu-f
 ootball-game\n• 1979 – The Wall\, a rock opera and concept album by th
 e English band Pink Floyd\, was first released. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-1979-11-30-the-wall\n• 2005 – John Sentamu was e
 nthroned as Archbishop of York\, becoming the first black archbishop in th
 e Church of England. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-
 11-30-john-sentamu\n• 2018 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (aftermath pic
 tured) hit Anchorage\, Alaska\, causing 117 injuries. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2018-11-30-2018-anchorage-earthquake\n\nBorn 1
 825: William-Adolphe Bouguereau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adol
 phe_Bouguereau\nDied 1900: Eugenia Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Eugenia_Washington\nBorn 1915: Henry Taube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Henry_Taube\nDied 2023: Shane MacGowan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan
 e_MacGowan\n\nPictured: Damage from the 2018 Anchorage earthquake.
SUMMARY:📅 November 30 · Balmis Expedition\, 1935 SMU vs. TCU football g
 ame\, The Wall\, John Sentamu\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 1 in history:\n• 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars:
  Austrian forces\, led by Archduke John of Austria\, defeated two division
 s of the French First Republic\, led by Paul Grenier\, at the Battle of Am
 pfing. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1800-12-01-battle-o
 f-ampfing-1800\n• 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Braz
 il\, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday. /travel/calen
 dars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1822-12-01-pedro-i-of-brazil\n• 1955 
 – Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public b
 us to a white man in Montgomery\, Alabama\, United States\, sparking the M
 ontgomery bus boycott. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-195
 5-12-01-rosa-parks\n• 1974 – Two Boeing 727s\, TWA Flight 514 and Nort
 hwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231\, crashed in the eastern United States i
 n unrelated circumstances\, killing 95 people on board both aircraft. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1974-12-01-twa-flight-514\n•
  2019 – Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsen
 al W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C.\, which broke t
 he record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2019-12-01-vivianne-miedema\
 n\nDied 1580: Giovanni Morone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Moron
 e\nBorn 1930: Ardina Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardina_Moore\nBor
 n 1950: Ueli Maurer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Maurer\nDied 1985: 
 Kenshiro Abbe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenshiro_Abbe\n\nPictured: Ped
 ro I of Brazil\, later also Pedro&nbsp\;IV of Portugal.
SUMMARY:📅 December 1 · Battle of Ampfing (1800)\, Pedro I of Brazil\, R
 osa Parks\, TWA Flight 514\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 3 in history:\n• 1800 – War of the Second Coalitio
 n: French forces defeated Austrian and Bavarian troops at the Battle of Ho
 henlinden\, eventually resulting in the Austrians signing the Treaty of Lu
 néville. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1800-12-03-battl
 e-of-hohenlinden\n• 1937 – Rupert Bruce-Mitford\, the spiritus rector 
 of research on the Sutton Hoo ship burial\, joined the British Museum. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1937-12-03-rupert-bruce-mitfo
 rd\n• 1959 – The current flag and coat of arms of Singapore (pictured)
  were adopted\, six months after the island became self-governing within t
 he British Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1959-12
 -03-flag-of-singapore\n• 1979 – Eleven people were crushed in a human 
 stampede at a concert by British rock band the Who in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, 
 U.S. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-12-03-the-who-co
 ncert-disaster\n• 2009 – A suicide bombing in Mogadishu\, Somalia\, ki
 lled 25 people\, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Gov
 ernment. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2009-12-03-2009-h
 otel-shamo-bombing\n\nBorn 1755: Gilbert Stuart https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/Gilbert_Stuart\nDied 1910: Mary Baker Eddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Mary_Baker_Eddy\nBorn 1933: Paul J. Crutzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Paul_J._Crutzen\nBorn 2005: Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Sverre_Magnus_of_Norway
SUMMARY:📅 December 3 · Battle of Hohenlinden\, Rupert Bruce-Mitford\, f
 lag of Singapore\, The Who…
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DESCRIPTION:December 4 in history:\n• 1370 – Hundred Years' War: In two
  separate engagements in the Battle of Pontvallain (depicted)\, French for
 ces wiped out an English army which had split up because of a dispute betw
 een the commanders. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1370-1
 2-04-battle-of-pontvallain\n• 1905 – The Great Seimas of Vilnius met t
 o discuss national concerns within Lithuania: they decided to demand wide 
 political autonomy within the Russian Empire. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1905-12-04-great-seimas-of-vilnius\n• 1915 – World
  War I: Senior British and French figures\, including prime ministers H. H
 . Asquith and Aristide Briand\, met at Calais to discuss the future of the
  Salonika Front. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1915-12-0
 4-calais-conference-december-1915\n• 1992 – U.S. president George H. W
 . Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian a
 id and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1992-12-04-unified-task-force\n\nBorn 1585
 : John Cotton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cotton_%28minister%29\nDi
 ed 1845: Gregor MacGregor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor\n
 Born 1955: Gabriel Dessauer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Dessauer
 \nDied 1975: Hannah Arendt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt\n\n
 Pictured: The Battle of Pontvallain.
SUMMARY:📅 December 4 · Battle of Pontvallain\, Great Seimas of Vilnius\
 , Calais Conference (December…
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DESCRIPTION:December 5 in history:\n• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued 
 the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus\, which gave the Dominican i
 nquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft i
 n Germany. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1484-12-05-summ
 is-desiderantes-affectibus\n• 1952 – The "Great Smog of London" (pictu
 red) began and lasted for five days\, causing 12\,000 deaths and leading t
 o the Clean Air Act 1956. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1952-12-05-great-smog-of-london\n• 1965 – The "glasnost meeting" took 
 place in Moscow\, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union aft
 er World War II and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in 
 the country. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-12-05-gl
 asnost-meeting\n• 1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime M
 inister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard
 \, ending 23 years of Liberal–Country Party government. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-12-05-gough-whitlam\n\nDied 1784: Phi
 llis Wheatley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley\nBorn 1875: A
 rthur Currie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie\nBorn 1885: Louis
 e Bryant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bryant\nBorn 1985: Latifa bi
 nt Mohammed Al Maktoum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifa_bint_Mohammed_
 Al_Maktoum_%28born_1985%29\n\nPictured: [[Nelson's Column]] during the Gre
 at Smog of London.
SUMMARY:📅 December 5 · Summis desiderantes affectibus\, Great Smog of L
 ondon\, glasnost meeting\, Gough…
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DESCRIPTION:December 2 in history:\n• 1823 – U.S. president James Monro
 e issued the Monroe Doctrine\, a proclamation of opposition to European co
 lonialism in the New World. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1823-12-02-monroe-doctrine\n• 1927 – The Ford Motor Company introduc
 ed the second version of the Model A (pictured)\, its first new model in 1
 8 years. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1927-12-02-ford-m
 odel-a-1927-1932\n• 1950 – Korean War: UN forces began a retreat from 
 North Korea following defeat at the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1950-12-02-battle-of-the-ch-ong
 ch-on-river\n• 1989 – The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian go
 vernment signed a peace accord to end a 21-year communist insurgency. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-12-02-communist-insurgenc
 y-in-malaysia-1968-19\n• 2015 – In San Bernardino\, California\, a mar
 ried couple carried out a mass shooting at a Christmas party before fleein
 g and dying in a shootout with police. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histor
 y/events/otd-2015-12-02-2015-san-bernardino-attack\n\nBorn 1872: Irene Van
 brugh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Vanbrugh\nDied 1885: Allen Wrigh
 t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Wright\nBorn 1915: Austen Deans http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Deans\nBorn 1995: Inori Minase https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Inori_Minase\n\nPictured: 1928 Ford Model&nbsp\;A.
SUMMARY:📅 December 2 · Monroe Doctrine\, Ford Model A (1927–1932)\, B
 attle of the Ch'ongch'on River\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 6 in history:\n• 1060 – Béla I (pictured) was cro
 wned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1060-12-06-bela-i-of-hungary\n• 1865 – Slavery in the
  United States was officially abolished with the ratification of the Thirt
 eenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1865-12-06-thirteenth-amendment-to-the-united-state\n• 1
 942 – The Holocaust: Members of the German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 
 people in Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka within occupied Poland for helping
  Jews. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-12-06-stary-ci
 epielow-and-rekowka-massacre\n• 1975 – Four members of the Provisional
  Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Stre
 et in London\, surrendering six days later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1975-12-06-balcombe-street-siege\n• 1990 – An Italia
 n Air Force military jet\, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire\,
  crashed into a high school near Bologna\, killing 12 students and injurin
 g 88 other people. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-12
 -06-1990-italian-air-force-mb-326-crash\n\nBorn 1645: Maria de Dominici ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_de_Dominici\nBorn 1685: Marie Adélaïde
  of Savoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_of_Savoy\
 nBorn 1885: Winifred Hoernlé https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Hoern
 l%C3%A9\nDied 2005: Devan Nair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devan_Nair\n\
 nPictured: Béla&nbsp\;I of Hungary.
SUMMARY:📅 December 6 · Béla I of Hungary\, Thirteenth Amendment to the
  United States Constitution\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 7 in history:\n• 574 – Suffering from mental illne
 ss\, Eastern Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed C
 aesar\, adopting him as his own son. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-0574-12-07-tiberius-ii-constantine\n• 1862 – American Civil
  War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain co
 ntrol of northwestern Arkansas. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1862-12-07-battle-of-prairie-grove\n• 1972 – Construction worker
 s found the remains of Martin Bormann near Lehrter Station in Berlin\, end
 ing a decades-long search after his conviction in absentia at the Nurember
 g trials. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-12-07-marti
 n-bormann\n• 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter\, a litt
 le more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis dur
 ing Mission STS-34. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1995-1
 2-07-galileo-spacecraft\n• 2014 – The annual furry convention Midwest 
 FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-12-07-2014-midwest-furfest-gas-attack\
 n\nDied 1649: Charles Garnier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Garnie
 r_%28missionary%29\nBorn 1810: Theodor Schwann https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Theodor_Schwann\nBorn 1860: Joseph Cook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
 oseph_Cook\nBorn 1989: Nicholas Hoult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichol
 as_Hoult\n\nPictured: [[Solidus (coin).
SUMMARY:📅 December 7 · Tiberius II Constantine\, Battle of Prairie Grov
 e\, Martin Bormann\, Galileo…
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DESCRIPTION:December 8 in history:\n• 1660 – Margaret Hughes (pictured)
  appeared professionally on the English stage\; she is thought to have bee
 n the first woman to do so. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1660-12-08-margaret-hughes\n• 1880 – At an assembly of 10\,000 Boers
 \, Paul Kruger announced the fulfilment of the decision to restore the gov
 ernment and volksraad of the South African Republic. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1880-12-08-paul-kruger\n• 1987 – A man shot
  and killed eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne\, bef
 ore jumping to his death. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1987-12-08-queen-street-massacre\n• 2010 – The Japanese experimental s
 pacecraft IKAROS flew by Venus at a distance of 80\,800 km (50\,200 mi)\, 
 completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2010-12-08-ikaros\n• 2024 –
  The Syrian civil war ended when Bashar al-Assad's party\, the Syrian Ba'a
 th Party\, surrendered to the Syrian opposition. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-2024-12-08-syrian-civil-war\n\nBorn 1815: Adolph Me
 nzel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Menzel\nBorn 1862: Georges Feyde
 au https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Feydeau\nDied 2000: Ann T. Bowlin
 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_T._Bowling\nDied 2010: Robert Austin M
 arkus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Austin_Markus\n\nPictured: Port
 rait of Margaret Hughes by Peter Lely\, 1672.
SUMMARY:📅 December 8 · Margaret Hughes\, Paul Kruger\, Queen Street mas
 sacre\, IKAROS\, Syrian civil war
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DESCRIPTION:December 9 in history:\n• 1775 – American Revolutionary War
 : After their loss in the Battle of Great Bridge\, British authorities wer
 e forced to evacuate from the Colony of Virginia. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1775-12-09-battle-of-great-bridge\n• 1940 – Se
 cond World War: British and Commonwealth forces began Operation Compass\, 
 the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert campaign. 
 /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1940-12-09-operation-compa
 ss\n• 1965 – A large\, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in mid
 western North America before landing in Kecksburg\, Pennsylvania. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-12-09-kecksburg-ufo-incident\
 n• 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of scientists certifi
 ed the global eradication of smallpox (virus pictured)\, making it the onl
 y human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-12-09-world-health-organ
 ization\n• 1990 – In Serbia's first multi-party election\, Slobodan Mi
 lošević won the presidential election and the Socialist Party of Serbia 
 won the majority of seats in the National Assembly. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-1990-12-09-1990-serbian-general-election\n\nDied
  748: Nasr ibn Sayyar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasr_ibn_Sayyar\nBorn 
 1865: Isabelle Urquhart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Urquhart\nB
 orn 1885: Grete Wiesenthal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Wiesenthal\
 nBorn 1995: McKayla Maroney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKayla_Maroney\
 n\nPictured: Electron micrograph of the smallpox virus.
SUMMARY:📅 December 9 · Battle of Great Bridge\, Operation Compass\, Kec
 ksburg UFO incident\, smallpox\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 10 in history:\n• 1884 – Adventures of Huckleberry
  Finn (Finn depicted) by American author Mark Twain was first published in
  the United Kingdom and Canada\, two months earlier than in the US. /trave
 l/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1884-12-10-adventures-of-huckleb
 erry-finn\n• 1890 – The New York World Building\, the then-tallest bui
 lding in the United States at a height of 110 meters\, was completed in Ne
 w York City. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1890-12-10-ne
 w-york-world-building\n• 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair\, proteste
 rs marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Sq
 uare over the existence of a memorial for animals that had been vivisected
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1907-12-10-brown-dog-aff
 air\n• 1942 – Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issu
 ed a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1942-12-10-raczynski-s-note\n• 1989
  – At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia\, journalis
 t Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democrati
 c Union\, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months
  later. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1989-12-10-tsakhia
 giin-elbegdorj\n\nBorn 1860: Margaret Eliza Maltby https://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Margaret_Eliza_Maltby\nBorn 1864: Giosuè Gallucci https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Giosu%C3%A8_Gallucci\nDied 1935: Pío Romero Bosque https://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADo_Romero_Bosque\nBorn 1982: Sultan Kösen htt
 ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_K%C3%B6sen\n\nPictured: Huckleberry Finn
  depicted by [[E. W. Kemble]].
SUMMARY:📅 December 10 · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, New York World
  Building\, Brown Dog affair\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 11 in history:\n• 1899 – Second Boer War: In the B
 attle of Magersfontein\, Boers defeated British forces trying to relieve t
 he Siege of Kimberley. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-189
 9-12-11-battle-of-magersfontein\n• 1925 – Pope Pius XI promulgated the
  encyclical Quas primas\, establishing the Feast of Christ the King. /trav
 el/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1925-12-11-quas-primas\n• 197
 2 – Apollo 17 (Lunar Roving Vehicle pictured)\, the last Apollo mission\
 , landed on the Moon. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972
 -12-11-apollo-17\n• 2005 – Demonstrations in Cronulla\, a suburb of Sy
 dney\, against recent violence towards locals turned into a series of race
  riots. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2005-12-11-2005-cr
 onulla-riots\n• 2008 – American stockbroker Bernie Madoff was arrested
  and charged with securities fraud in a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme\, the l
 argest in history. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2008-12
 -11-bernie-madoff\n\nDied 1655: Pieter Nuyts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Pieter_Nuyts\nBorn 1750: Isaac Shelby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac
 _Shelby\nBorn 1882: Max Born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Born\nBorn 
 1968: Emmanuelle Charpentier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Char
 pentier\n\nPictured: Lunar Roving Vehicle\, driven by [[Gene Cernan]].
SUMMARY:📅 December 11 · Battle of Magersfontein\, Quas primas\, Apollo 
 17\, 2005 Cronulla riots\, Bernie…
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DESCRIPTION:December 12 in history:\n• 1388 – Unable to defend her poss
 essions\, Maria of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the R
 epublic of Venice. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1388-12
 -12-mary-of-enghien\n• 1939 – The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duchess (pi
 ctured) collided with HMS Barham\, the battleship she was escorting\, and 
 Duchess sank with heavy loss of life. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1939-12-12-hms-duchess-h64\n• 1942 – World War II: German 
 troops began Operation Winter Storm\, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis
  forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1942-12-12-operation-winter-storm\n• 1964 – Jomo Kenyat
 ta became the first president of the Republic of Kenya. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1964-12-12-jomo-kenyatta\n• 1979 – A mag
 nitude-8.2 earthquake struck just off the shore of Tumaco\, Colombia\, cau
 sing at least 300 deaths\, mostly by the resulting tsunami. /travel/calend
 ars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1979-12-12-1979-tumaco-earthquake\n\nDie
 d 1804: John Boydell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boydell\nBorn 1920
 : Anne Liburd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Liburd\nDied 1970: Doris 
 Blackburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Blackburn\nDied 2015: Evelyn
  S. Lieberman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_S._Lieberman\n\nPicture
 d: HMS ''Duchess''.
SUMMARY:📅 December 12 · lordship of Argos and Nauplia\, HMS Duchess (H6
 4)\, Operation Winter Storm\, Jomo…
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DESCRIPTION:December 13 in history:\n• 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigne
 d the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an a
 scetic hermit. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1294-12-13-
 pope-celestine-v\n• 1577 – Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth\, Engl
 and\, on his round-the-world voyage. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1577-12-13-francis-drake-s-circumnavigation\n• 1862 – Ameri
 can Civil War: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualt
 ies against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksbu
 rg in Virginia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1862-12-13
 -battle-of-fredericksburg\n• 1957 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck 
 the Iranian Hamadan province\, killing at least 1\,130 people. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1957-12-13-1957-farsinaj-earthquake\n
 • 1960 – With Haile Selassie (pictured)\, Emperor of Ethiopia\, out of
  the country\, four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Pr
 ince Asfaw Wossen on the throne. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/even
 ts/otd-1960-12-13-1960-ethiopian-coup-attempt\n\nBorn 1484: Paul Speratus 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Speratus\nBorn 1925: Dick Van Dyke http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke\nDied 1960: Dora Marsden https://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Marsden\nDied 1975: Addie Viola Smith https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Addie_Viola_Smith\n\nPictured: Haile Selassie.
SUMMARY:📅 December 13 · Pope Celestine V\, Francis Drake's circumnaviga
 tion\, Battle of Fredericksburg\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 14 in history:\n• 835 – In the Sweet Dew incident\
 , Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspired to kill the powerful eunuc
 hs of the Tang court\, but the plot was foiled. /travel/calendars/moments-
 in-history/events/otd-0835-12-14-sweet-dew-incident\n• 1925 – Wozzeck 
 (poster pictured) by composer Alban Berg\, described as the first atonal o
 pera\, premiered at the Berlin State Opera. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1925-12-14-wozzeck\n• 1948 – American physicists Tho
 mas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann were awarded a patent for their ca
 thode-ray tube amusement device\, the first interactive electronic game. /
 travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1948-12-14-thomas-t-goldsmi
 th-jr\n• 1960 – Australian cricketer Ian Meckiff was run out on the la
 st day of the first Test match between Australia and the West Indies\, res
 ulting in the first tied Test in cricket history. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-1960-12-14-ian-meckiff\n• 1992 – War in Abkhaz
 ia: A helicopter carrying evacuees was shot down during the siege of Tkvar
 cheli\, resulting in at least 52 deaths and catalysing more concerted Russ
 ian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia. /travel/calendars/moments
 -in-history/events/otd-1992-12-14-war-in-abkhazia-1992-1993\n\nDied 1480: 
 Niccolò Perotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Perotti\nDied 
 1785: Giovanni Battista Cipriani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Ba
 ttista_Cipriani\nBorn 1979: Michael Owen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic
 hael_Owen\nDied 2020: Huang Zongying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Z
 ongying\n\nPictured: 1925 ''Wozzeck'' poster.
SUMMARY:📅 December 14 · Sweet Dew incident\, Wozzeck\, cathode-ray tube
  amusement device\, Ian Meckiff\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 15 in history:\n• 1025 – Constantine VIII (depicte
 d) became the sole Byzantine emperor\, 63 years after being crowned co-emp
 eror. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1025-12-15-constanti
 ne-viii\n• 1890 – Sitting Bull\, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader\, was killed
  on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency 
 police. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1890-12-15-sitting
 -bull\n• 1939 – The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind\,
  adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the sa
 me name\, premiered in Atlanta\, Georgia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-1939-12-15-gone-with-the-wind-film\n• 1945 – The US-le
 d occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support 
 for Shinto. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1945-12-15-sta
 te-shinto\n• 2019 – Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local
  women blockaded a major road in Delhi\, India\, to protest the exclusion 
 of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-2019-12-15-shaheen-bagh-protest\n\nDied 1810: Sarah Tri
 mmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Trimmer\nDied 1950: Vallabhbhai P
 atel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel\nDied 2010: Bob Felle
 r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller\n\nPictured: Constantine VIII.
SUMMARY:📅 December 15 · Constantine VIII\, Sitting Bull\, Gone with the
  Wind (film)\, State Shinto\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 16 in history:\n• 1740 – Prussian forces\, led by 
 Frederick the Great\, moved into the Habsburg region of Silesia\, starting
  the First Silesian War. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1
 740-12-16-first-silesian-war\n• 1850 – Settlers of the Canterbury Asso
 ciation aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony a
 t Christchurch\, New Zealand. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1850-12-16-canterbury-association\n• 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz (pi
 ctured)\, the first president of Poland\, was assassinated only five days 
 after having taken office. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd
 -1922-12-16-assassination-of-gabriel-narutowicz\n• 1930 – German-Ameri
 can gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt i
 n Clinton\, Indiana\, to avoid being captured by police. /travel/calendars
 /moments-in-history/events/otd-1930-12-16-herman-lamm\n• 1997 – "Denn
 ō Senshi Porygon"\, an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon
 \, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children. /travel/calendars/moments-i
 n-history/events/otd-1997-12-16-denno-senshi-porygon\n\nBorn 1775: Jane Au
 sten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen\nBorn 1869: Bertha Lamme Fe
 icht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Lamme_Feicht\nDied 1983: Charles
  Brenton Fisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brenton_Fisk\nDied 202
 0: Bethwel Henry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethwel_Henry\n\nPictured: 
 Gabriel Narutowicz.
SUMMARY:📅 December 16 · First Silesian War\, Canterbury Association\, A
 ssassination of Gabriel…
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DESCRIPTION:December 17 in history:\n• 1790 – The Aztec sun stone (pict
 ured)\, now a modern symbol of Mexican culture\, was excavated in the Zóc
 alo\, the main square of Mexico City. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history
 /events/otd-1790-12-17-aztec-sun-stone\n• 1862 – American Civil War: U
 nion General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11\, expelling Jews
  from Tennessee\, Mississippi\, and Kentucky. /travel/calendars/moments-in
 -history/events/otd-1862-12-17-general-order-no-11-1862\n• 1939 – Worl
 d War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plat
 e two days earlier\, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its comm
 ander\, Hans Langsdorff\, to avoid its internment by Uruguay. /travel/cale
 ndars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-12-17-german-cruiser-admiral-graf
 -spee\n• 1945 – The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first 
 time in Mahabad\, Iran. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 45-12-17-flag-of-kurdistan\n• 1990 – American gay rights activist Will
 iam E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses 
 in Honolulu. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1990-12-17-wi
 lliam-e-woods\n\nBorn 1749: Domenico Cimarosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Domenico_Cimarosa\nDied 1825: James White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
 James_White_%28inventor%29\nBorn 1920: Kenneth E. Iverson https://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson\nBorn 1975: Milla Jovovich https://en.wik
 ipedia.org/wiki/Milla_Jovovich\n\nPictured: Aztec calendar stone.
SUMMARY:📅 December 17 · Aztec sun stone\, General Order No. 11 (1862)\,
  German cruiser Admiral Graf…
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DESCRIPTION:December 18 in history:\n• 1499 – Muslims in Granada began 
 a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversio
 ns to Catholicism. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1499-12
 -18-rebellion-of-the-alpujarras-1499-1501\n• 1792 – Thomas Paine (depi
 cted) was found guilty of seditious libel for the publication of the secon
 d part of his book Rights of Man. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1792-12-18-trial-of-thomas-paine\n• 1867 – In Angola\, New Yor
 k\, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed\, plunged down a
  gully\, and caught fire\, resulting in approximately 49 deaths. /travel/c
 alendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1867-12-18-angola-horror\n• 1939 
 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe won a victory over the Royal Air Force
  in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight\, greatly influencing both sides' f
 uture aerial warfare strategy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-1939-12-18-battle-of-the-heligoland-bight-1939\n• 2023 – A series
  of mass protests began in Belgrade\, Serbia\, alleging electoral irregula
 rities in the Serbian parliament and Belgrade city assembly elections. /tr
 avel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2023-12-18-2023-serbian-elect
 ion-protests\n\nBorn 1849: Henrietta Edwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Henrietta_Edwards\nBorn 1890: Edwin Howard Armstrong https://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong\nBorn 1975: Sia https://en.wikipedia.org/
 wiki/Sia\nDied 1980: Alexei Kosygin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_K
 osygin\n\nPictured: Thomas Paine.
SUMMARY:📅 December 18 · Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501)\, Tri
 al of Thomas Paine\, Angola Horror\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 19 in history:\n• 1154 – Henry II (depicted) was c
 rowned king of England in Westminster Abbey\, London. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1154-12-19-henry-ii-of-england\n• 1964 – T
 he ruling junta of South Vietnam\, led by Nguyễn Khánh\, initiated a co
 up\, dissolving the High National Council\, a civilian advisory body. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1964-12-19-december-1964-south
 -vietnamese-coup\n• 1984 – China and the United Kingdom signed the Sin
 o-British Joint Declaration\, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of H
 ong Kong to China on 1 July 1997. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1984-12-19-sino-british-joint-declaration\n• 1985 – Aeroflot F
 light 101/435 was hijacked by its co-pilot\; it landed in a cow pasture in
  China\, where he was apprehended. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/ev
 ents/otd-1985-12-19-aeroflot-flight-101-435\n• 1997 – Titanic\, the fo
 urth-highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of more than
  US$2.2 billion\, was released in the United States. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1997-12-19-titanic-1997-film\n\nDied 1370: Pope
  Urban V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_V\nBorn 1820: Mary Liver
 more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Livermore\nBorn 1875: Mileva Mari
 ć https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari%C4%87\nBorn 1940: Phil Ochs h
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs\n\nPictured: Henry II.
SUMMARY:📅 December 19 · Henry II of England\, December 1964 South Vietn
 amese coup\, Sino-British Joint…
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DESCRIPTION:December 20 in history:\n• 1248 – Attempting to form an all
 iance with the Mongol Empire\, Louis IX of France met with two of their en
 voys while en route to the Seventh Crusade. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1248-12-20-franco-mongol-alliance\n• 1984 – Twelve-y
 ear-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her home in Greeley\, Colorado\;
  her body was not discovered until 2019. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hist
 ory/events/otd-1984-12-20-murder-of-jonelle-matthews\n• 1987 – The dea
 dliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña P
 az (pictured) sank after colliding with an oil tanker in the Tablas Strait
  in the Philippines\, resulting in an estimated 4\,385 deaths. /travel/cal
 endars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1987-12-20-list-of-maritime-disasters
 \n• 1995 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Bug
 a\, Colombia\, killing 159 of the 163 people on board. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1995-12-20-american-airlines-flight-965\n• 
 2007 – Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the Sã
 o Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later. /tra
 vel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2007-12-20-portrait-of-suzanne
 -bloch\n\nDied 217: Pope Zephyrinus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Zep
 hyrinus\nDied 1740: Richard Boyle\, 2nd Viscount Shannon https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Richard_Boyle%2C_2nd_Viscount_Shannon\nBorn 1990: Maya Lindho
 lm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lindholm\nDied 1997: Dawn Steel http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Steel\n\nPictured: MV&nbsp\;''Doña Paz'' i
 n port\, 1984.
SUMMARY:📅 December 20 · Franco-Mongol alliance\, Murder of Jonelle Matt
 hews\, MV Doña Paz\, American…
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DESCRIPTION:December 21 in history:\n• 1124 – Lamberto Scannabecchi was
  elected pope\, taking the name Honorius II. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1124-12-21-1124-papal-election\n• 1872 – HMS Challe
 nger departed Portsmouth on a scientific expedition that laid the foundati
 ons of oceanography. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1872-
 12-21-hms-challenger-1858\n• 1919 – After serving two years in prison 
 for encouraging people to resist military conscription\, anarchist Emma Go
 ldman was deported from the United States to Russia. /travel/calendars/mom
 ents-in-history/events/otd-1919-12-21-emma-goldman\n• 1934 – Lieutenan
 t Kijé\, the first film composition by Sergei Prokofiev (pictured)\, prem
 iered. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1934-12-21-lieutena
 nt-kije-prokofiev\n• 1995 – In accordance with the Oslo II Accord\, Is
 raeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem in preparation for the transfer of co
 ntrol to the Palestinian National Authority. /travel/calendars/moments-in-
 history/events/otd-1995-12-21-bethlehem\n\nBorn 1820: William H. Osborn ht
 tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Osborn\nBorn 1920: Adele Goldstine 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine\nDied 1955: Milan Marjanovi
 ć https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Marjanovi%C4%87\nDied 2020: K. T. O
 slin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._T._Oslin\n\nPictured: Sergei Prokofi
 ev.
SUMMARY:📅 December 21 · 1124 papal election\, HMS Challenger (1858)\, E
 mma Goldman\, Lieutenant Kijé…
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DESCRIPTION:December 22 in history:\n• 1807 – In an effort to avoid eng
 aging in the Napoleonic Wars\, the United States Congress passed the Embar
 go Act\, forbidding American ships from engaging in trade with foreign nat
 ions. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1807-12-22-embargo-a
 ct-of-1807\n• 1920 – The Congress of Soviets approved the GOELRO plan\
 , the first Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development. /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1920-12-22-goelro\n• 1939 
 – Members of the All-India Muslim League observed a "Day of Deliverance"
  to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress 
 over the decision to enter the Second World War at the request of the Unit
 ed Kingdom. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1939-12-22-day
 -of-deliverance\n• 1997 – Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquished the disput
 ed title of President of Somalia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/eve
 nts/otd-1997-12-22-hussein-farrah-aidid\n• 2010 – The United States re
 pealed its "don't ask\, don't tell" policy on gay\, lesbian and bisexual p
 eople in the military (signing pictured). /travel/calendars/moments-in-his
 tory/events/otd-2010-12-22-don-t-ask-don-t-tell-repeal-act-of-2010\n\nDied
  1060: Cynesige https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynesige\nBorn 1900: Alan Bu
 sh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bush\nBorn 1905: Tommy Flowers https
 ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers\nBorn 1964: Angela James https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_James\n\nPictured: [[Barack Obama.
SUMMARY:📅 December 22 · Embargo Act of 1807\, GOELRO\, Day of Deliveran
 ce\, Hussein Farrah Aidid\, Don't…
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DESCRIPTION:December 23 in history:\n• 583 – Yohl Ikʼnal (signature pi
 ctured) acceded to the throne of the Maya city-state of Palenque. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-0583-12-23-yohl-ik-nal\n• 1815 
 – Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published\, the last novel released
  during her lifetime. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1815
 -12-23-emma-novel\n• 1958 – Tokyo Tower\, then the world's tallest fre
 estanding tower\, opened. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1958-12-23-tokyo-tower\n• 1984 – An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight
  3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk\, USSR\, killing all
  but one of the 111 people on board. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/
 events/otd-1984-12-23-aeroflot-flight-3519\n• 1990 – About 88 percent 
 of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal 
 Republic of Yugoslavia. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-19
 90-12-23-1990-slovenian-independence-referendum\n• 1997 – The Pioneer 
 Helmet\, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered\, was first 
 placed on public display. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1997-12-23-pioneer-helmet\n\nDied 1605: Francis Tresham https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham\nBorn 1805: Joseph Smith https://en.wikipedia.
 org/wiki/Joseph_Smith\nBorn 1810: Edward Blyth https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Edward_Blyth\nDied 1984: Joan Lindsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joa
 n_Lindsay\n\nPictured: Signature of [[Yohl Ikʼnal]].
SUMMARY:📅 December 23 · Yohl Ikʼnal\, Emma (novel)\, Tokyo Tower\, Aer
 oflot Flight 3519\, 1990 Slovenian…
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DESCRIPTION:December 24 in history:\n• 1818 – The Christmas carol "Sile
 nt Night" (audio featured) by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber was first perfo
 rmed in a church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg\, Austria. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1818-12-24-silent-night\n• 1865 – Six Conf
 ederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they name
 d the Ku Klux Klan\, which later became a white supremacist group. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1865-12-24-ku-klux-klan\n• 1918
  – Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs\, Croats and Slovenes defeated 
 Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-1918-12-24-1918-occupation-of-medimurje\n• 1
 925 – Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in th
 e London Evening News. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-192
 5-12-24-winnie-the-pooh\n• 1955 – According to legend\, the NORAD Trac
 ks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air De
 fense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a m
 isprinted phone number in an advertisement. /travel/calendars/moments-in-h
 istory/events/otd-1955-12-24-norad-tracks-santa\n\nDied 950: Yang Bin http
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Bin\nBorn 1880: Johnny Gruelle https://en.w
 ikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle\nBorn 1940: Anthony Fauci https://en.wiki
 pedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci\nDied 1957: Shūmei Ōkawa https://en.wikiped
 ia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABmei_%C5%8Ckawa\n\nPictured: "Silent Night".
SUMMARY:📅 December 24 · Silent Night\, Ku Klux Klan\, 1918 occupation o
 f Međimurje\, Winnie-the-Pooh\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 25 in history:\n• 1100 – Baldwin I was crowned the
  first king of Jerusalem (depicted) in the Church of the Nativity in Bethl
 ehem. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1100-12-25-baldwin-i
 -of-jerusalem\n• 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of the Ch
 ristmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens\, BWV 110\, making laughter au
 dible in singing. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1725-12-
 25-unser-mund-sei-voll-lachens-bwv-110\n• 1990 – British computer prog
 rammer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb\, the world's first web bro
 wser and WYSIWYG HTML editor. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/
 otd-1990-12-25-worldwideweb\n• 2000 – Russian president Vladimir Putin
  signed into law a bill officially adopting a new national anthem\, with m
 usic by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov originally composed for the anthe
 m of the Soviet Union. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-200
 0-12-25-national-anthem-of-russia\n• 2024 – After the loss of aircraft
  systems\, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashed near Aktau Internationa
 l Airport while attempting to perform an emergency landing after being hit
  by a Russian defense missile. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events
 /otd-2024-12-25-azerbaijan-airlines-flight-8243\n\nDied 940: Makan ibn Kak
 i https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makan_ibn_Kaki\nBorn 1665: Lady Grizel Bai
 llie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grizel_Baillie\nBorn 1935: Sadiq a
 l-Mahdi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_al-Mahdi\nBorn 1949: Sissy Spa
 cek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissy_Spacek\n\nPictured: Coronation of 
 Baldwin&nbsp\;I of Jerusalem.
SUMMARY:📅 December 25 · Baldwin I of Jerusalem\, Unser Mund sei voll La
 chens\, BWV 110\, WorldWideWeb\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 31 in history:\n• 1759 – Arthur Guinness signed a 
 9\,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dub
 lin and began brewing Guinness. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1759-12-31-guinness\n• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: At the
  Battle of Quebec\, British forces repulsed an attempt by the Continental 
 Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1775-12-31-battle-of-quebec-1775\n
 • 1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations force
 s in the first of two battles at Wonju. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1950-12-31-first-and-second-battles-of-wonju\n• 1965 – C
 entral African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa began a coup d
 'état against the government of President David Dacko. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1965-12-31-saint-sylvestre-coup-d-etat\n• 
 1972 – Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente (pictured) died in 
 a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of that year's Nicaragua 
 earthquake. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1972-12-31-rob
 erto-clemente\n\nDied 1730: Carlo Gimach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car
 lo_Gimach\nDied 1960: C. D. Howe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._Howe\
 nBorn 1980: Richie McCaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_McCaw\nBorn 
 1995: Gabby Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Douglas\n\nPicture
 d: Roberto Clemente.
SUMMARY:📅 December 31 · Guinness\, Battle of Quebec (1775)\, First and 
 second battles of Wonju\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 26 in history:\n• 1709 – The opera Agrippina\, des
 cribed as George Frideric Handel's first masterpiece\, premiered in Venice
 . /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1709-12-26-agrippina-ope
 ra\n• 1800 – Philip Gidley King\, Governor of New South Wales\, ordere
 d the formation of the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse\, described as
  the first full-time military unit raised in Australia. /travel/calendars/
 moments-in-history/events/otd-1800-12-26-governor-s-body-guard-of-light-ho
 rse\n• 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3\,000 soldiers
  in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder 
 brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1825-12-26-decembrist-revolt\n• 19
 19 – American baseball player Babe Ruth (pictured) was sold by the Bosto
 n Red Sox to their rivals\, the New York Yankees\, beginning the 84-year-l
 ong "Curse of the Bambino". /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/ot
 d-1919-12-26-babe-ruth\n• 2015 – A violent tornado moved through sever
 al suburbs of Dallas\, United States\, killing ten and injuring almost 500
  others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2015-12-26-2015-g
 arland-tornado\n\nDied 1780: John Fothergill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /John_Fothergill_%28physician%29\nBorn 1885: Bazoline Estelle Usher https:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazoline_Estelle_Usher\nBorn 1950: Raja Pervaiz As
 hraf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Pervaiz_Ashraf\nDied 2000: Gust Za
 rnas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Zarnas\n\nPictured: Babe Ruth.
SUMMARY:📅 December 26 · Agrippina (opera)\, Governor's Body Guard of Li
 ght Horse\, Decembrist revolt\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 27 in history:\n• 1657 – Citizens of New Netherlan
 d presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant\, the director g
 eneral of the colonial province\, requesting an exemption to his ban on Qu
 aker worship. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1657-12-27-f
 lushing-remonstrance\n• 1932 – New York City's Radio City Music Hall (
 pictured) opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time. /travel/
 calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1932-12-27-radio-city-music-hall\n
 • 1985 – The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was d
 iscovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park\, Rwanda. /travel/ca
 lendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1985-12-27-dian-fossey\n• 2009 –
  During protests in Tehran against the recent presidential election\, Iran
 ian security forces opened fire on demonstrators. /travel/calendars/moment
 s-in-history/events/otd-2009-12-27-ashura-protests\n• 2024 – Acting pr
 esident and prime minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo was impeached by th
 e National Assembly. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2024-
 12-27-impeachment-of-han-duck-soo\n\nDied 1087: Bertha of Savoy https://en
 .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_of_Savoy\nBorn 1975: Kjell Eriksson https://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Eriksson_%28radio_presenter%29\nBorn 1995: Timoth
 ée Chalamet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoth%C3%A9e_Chalamet\nDied 20
 05: Zou Heng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zou_Heng\n\nPictured: Radio Cit
 y Music Hall.
SUMMARY:📅 December 27 · Flushing Remonstrance\, Radio City Music Hall\,
  Dian Fossey\, Ashura protests\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 28 in history:\n• 1065 – Westminster Abbey\, built
  by Edward the Confessor as the first Romanesque church in England\, was f
 irst consecrated. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1065-12-
 28-westminster-abbey\n• 1612 – Galileo Galilei became the first person
  to observe the planet Neptune (pictured)\, although he mistakenly catalog
 ued it as a fixed star. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-16
 12-12-28-neptune\n• 1908 – An earthquake registering 7.1 Mw struck nea
 r Messina\, which\, along with the subsequent tsunami\, killed at least 75
 \,000 people in southern Italy. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/event
 s/otd-1908-12-28-1908-messina-earthquake\n• 1925 – The Tokyo Grand Sum
 o Association became the All Japan Sumo Association at the instigation of 
 Prince-Regent Hirohito\, laying the foundations for the world's sole profe
 ssional sumo association. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-
 1925-12-28-japan-sumo-association\n• 2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8
 501 crashed into the Java Sea after the pilots mishandled a non-critical e
 rror in the cockpit\, which resulted in all 162 people on board being kill
 ed in the crash. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-2014-12-2
 8-indonesia-airasia-flight-8501\n\nDied 925: Wang Zongbi https://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Wang_Zongbi\nDied 1913: A. L. Burt https://en.wikipedia.org/w
 iki/A._L._Burt\nBorn 1995: Charles Fernández https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Charles_Fern%C3%A1ndez\nBorn 2000: Quackity https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Quackity\n\nPictured: Neptune.
SUMMARY:📅 December 28 · Westminster Abbey\, Neptune\, 1908 Messina eart
 hquake\, Japan Sumo Association\,…
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DESCRIPTION:December 29 in history:\n• 1845 – The Republic of Texas was
  annexed by the United States\, becoming the 28th state to be admitted to 
 the Union. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1845-12-29-texa
 s-annexation\n• 1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire\, the world
 's first ironclad warship\, the Royal Navy launched HMS Warrior\, the worl
 d's first iron-hulled armoured warship. /travel/calendars/moments-in-histo
 ry/events/otd-1860-12-29-hms-warrior-1860\n• 1890 – Sioux Wars: The Un
 ited States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men\, women and children at the 
 Wounded Knee Massacre\, beginning the Ghost Dance War. /travel/calendars/m
 oments-in-history/events/otd-1890-12-29-wounded-knee-massacre\n• 1915 
 – First World War: The French parliament passed a law granting the land 
 occupied by British war graves as "the free gift of the French people". /t
 ravel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1915-12-29-french-law-of-29-
 december-1915\n• 1975 – Planted by unknown perpetrators\, a bomb explo
 ded (aftermath pictured) at LaGuardia Airport in New York City\, killing 1
 1 people and seriously injuring 74 others. /travel/calendars/moments-in-hi
 story/events/otd-1975-12-29-1975-laguardia-airport-bombing\n\nDied 1720: M
 aria Margaretha Kirch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margaretha_Kirch
 \nBorn 1830: Ezra Meeker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Meeker\nDied 1
 894: Christina Rossetti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti\n
 Died 1970: Marie Menken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Menken\n\nPict
 ured: Terminal at LaGuardia Airport after the 1975 bombing.
SUMMARY:📅 December 29 · Texas annexation\, HMS Warrior (1860)\, Wounded
  Knee Massacre\, French law of 29…
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DESCRIPTION:December 30 in history:\n• 1460 – Wars of the Roses: At the
  Battle of Wakefield\, Lancastrian forces destroyed the Yorkist army and k
 illed Richard of York at Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire\, England. /travel
 /calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1460-12-30-battle-of-wakefield\n
 • 1845 – The University of Galway\, University College Cork and Queen'
 s University Belfast were established as part of the Queen's University of
  Ireland. /travel/calendars/moments-in-history/events/otd-1845-12-30-unive
 rsity-of-galway\n• 1935 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: In retaliation f
 or the execution of an Italian prisoner of war\, the Italian Air Force des
 troyed a field hospital of the Swedish Red Cross in Dolo. /travel/calendar
 s/moments-in-history/events/otd-1935-12-30-dolo-hospital-airstrike\n• 20
 00 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippine
 s\, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others. /travel/calendars/mo
 ments-in-history/events/otd-2000-12-30-rizal-day-bombings\n• 2005 – Tr
 opical Storm Zeta (pictured) became a tropical depression\, making it the 
 record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane seaso
 n\, the most active in recorded history until 2020. /travel/calendars/mome
 nts-in-history/events/otd-2005-12-30-tropical-storm-zeta\n\nBorn 1865: Rud
 yard Kipling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling\nBorn 1930: Elm
 ira Minita Gordon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmira_Minita_Gordon\nDied
  1940: C. Harold Wills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Harold_Wills\nBorn
  1995: V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%28singer%29\n\nPictured: Tropica
 l Storm Zeta.
SUMMARY:📅 December 30 · Battle of Wakefield\, University of Galway\, Do
 lo hospital airstrike\, Rizal Day…
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