Monday, May 4, 2026

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On this day in 1493 , Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation, thereby initiating ...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

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On this day in 1469 , Italian historian and political thinker Niccolò Machiavelli - author of The Prince and favorite philosopher of neoco...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

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On this day in 1536 , England's Queen Anne Boleyn - consort to King Henry VIII (who destroyed the Catholic Church in England just to b...
Friday, May 1, 2026

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The first day in the month of May is celebrated as May Day – also known as International Workers’ Day – almost everywhere in the world, w...
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Thursday, April 30, 2026

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On this day in 1945 , in an underground bunker, Adolf Hitler first poisons his wife, Eva Braun , then blows his own brains out with a p...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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On this day in 1945 , the German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. Meanwhile, in Germany, the Dachau concentration...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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On this day in  1192 , two  hashshashin  ambush and stab to death the Frankish Crusader  Conrad of Montferrat , who had just been elected...
Monday, April 27, 2026

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On this day in 1667 , a blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright to his prose magnum opus Paradise Lost … for £10. *...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

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On this day in 1937 , the Nazis test the bombing capabilities of their newly inaugurated Luftwaffe air force on the tiny Spanish town of ...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

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On this day in 1983 , mere months after President Ronald Reagan famously likened the USSR to an "evil empire," Soviet leader ...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

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On this day in 1479 BC , upon the death of his father Thutmoses II , and at the tender age of three years old, Thutmose III begins co-ru...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

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On this day in 1985 , the Coca-Cola Company changes its formula and releases New Coke . The response was originally mixed, but soon becam...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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Senator McCarthy and Trump's Mentor, the unctuously evil Roy Cohn On this day in the year 1864 , Congress passes the Coinage Act ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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On this day in 753 BC , those bitch-tit-sucking twins Romulus and Remus found Rome. "Empire" ensues. *** On this day in...
Monday, April 20, 2026

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On this day in  1939 ,  Adolf Hitler 's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany. Six years later, in  1945 , H...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

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On this day in 1961 , the clandestine invasion of Cuba ends in spectacular failure when JFK refuses to lend air support to the unapproved ...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

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On this day in 1831 , The University of Alabama is founded. Degrees are offered in a wide variety of disciplines including plantation man...
Friday, April 17, 2026

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On this day in 1397 , Geoffrey Chaucer begins telling his Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholar...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

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On this day in the year 73 AD , the Jewish fortress of Masada falls to the Romans after several months of siege... or not. The only thing we...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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On this day in  1896 , the first  Olympic Games  of the Modern Era come to a close in Athens, Greece, with a relatively simple closing cer...