August 12, 30 BCE — Cleopatra commits suicide
Cleopatra VII, reputedly one of the most beautiful women ever to have lived, was the eleventh and last Ptolemy ruler...
September 29, 2022
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July 13, 1793 — Jean-Paul Marat is killed in his bathtub
Jean-Paul Marat was a fiery republican journalist who was an important figure in the French revolutionary movement. A scientist (he...
June 4, 2021
November 24, 1859 — “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin is first published
One of the most controversial books in the world, On the Origin of Species (often called Origin of the Species...
November 9, 2020
June 9, 1954 — Joseph Welch stops Joseph McCarthy in his tracks
Joseph McCarthy had been hunting the Reds under America’s beds for years when he turned his attention to the Army...
March 14, 2018
January 9, 1962 — The first batch of Rainbow Herbicides arrives in Vietnam
Give the US Army some credit: their solution to the fact that they were ill-trained for fighting in jungles was...
October 14, 2017
June 22, 1969 — The Cuyahoga River catches fire. Again.
Between 1868 and 1969, there were thirteen separate fires on the Cuyahoga River, the worst occurring in 1952. It was...
December 14, 2016
July 21, 1969 — Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon
Really, what needs to be said? Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took off from the Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Canaveral,...
November 29, 2016
November 4, 1980 — Ronald Reagan is elected President
The 1980 United States presidential election was among the most bitterly fought of the Twentieth Century. Four years after the...
May 19, 2015
November 6, 1984 — Ronald Reagan is re-elected President
The 1984 United States presidential election was a victory lap for Reagan, and he achieved the greatest electoral college majority...
November 24, 2014
April 5, 1990 — Kurt Cobain commits suicide
To his fans, and most other people for that matter, he must have seemed on top of the world. Why...
August 4, 2014
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