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A Lawyer Watched a Fort Get Shelled All Night and Wrote a Poem About the Flag Still Being There

A Lawyer Watched a Fort Get Shelled All Night and Wrote a Poem About the Flag Still Being There

Francis Scott Key wrote the words to The Star-Spangled Banner on September 14, 1814, after watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. It became the American national anthem 117 years later.

Sep 14, 2026

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An Iron Bar Went Through His Head and He Walked Away. What Changed Was Who He Was.

An Iron Bar Went Through His Head and He Walked Away. What Changed Was Who He Was.

On September 13, 1848, an explosion drove a tamping iron through the skull of railway foreman Phineas Gage. He survived, and his case became the foundation of what we know about the frontal lobes.

Sep 13, 2026

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Four Teenagers Went Down a Hole in the Ground and Found the Oldest Art Gallery in Europe

Four Teenagers Went Down a Hole in the Ground and Found the Oldest Art Gallery in Europe

The Lascaux cave was discovered on September 12, 1940, by four boys in occupied France. Its walls held roughly six hundred paintings made about seventeen thousand years ago.

Sep 12, 2026

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Four Aircraft, One Morning, and the End of the Twentieth Century's Sense of Security

Four Aircraft, One Morning, and the End of the Twentieth Century's Sense of Security

On September 11, 2001, hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly three thousand people died, and the world reordered itself around that morning.

Sep 11, 2026

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They Switched On the Biggest Machine Ever Built, and the World Was Still There the Next Morning

They Switched On the Biggest Machine Ever Built, and the World Was Still There the Next Morning

The Large Hadron Collider circulated its first beam on September 10, 2008. Amid absurd predictions of black holes swallowing the planet, physicists started the search that found the Higgs boson.

Sep 10, 2026

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He Founded a State, Killed Tens of Millions, and Was Mourned by a Country He Had Exhausted

He Founded a State, Killed Tens of Millions, and Was Mourned by a Country He Had Exhausted

Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976. He had led China for twenty-seven years, through revolution, famine, and the Cultural Revolution, and his death opened the way to the country's transformation.

Sep 9, 2026

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A Show About a Spaceship Premiered to Modest Ratings and Was Cancelled. Then It Took Over the World.

A Show About a Spaceship Premiered to Modest Ratings and Was Cancelled. Then It Took Over the World.

Star Trek first aired on September 8, 1966. It lasted three seasons and was dropped. In reruns it became one of the most influential works of popular culture ever made.

Sep 8, 2026

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A King Wanted a Son and Got a Daughter Who Would Outreign Them All

A King Wanted a Son and Got a Daughter Who Would Outreign Them All

Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533, to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her birth was a disappointment to her father and her mother's undoing. She ruled England for forty-four years.

Sep 7, 2026

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A Leaky Cargo Ship Left an English Harbor With 102 Passengers and Almost No Idea What Was Coming

A Leaky Cargo Ship Left an English Harbor With 102 Passengers and Almost No Idea What Was Coming

The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Sixty-six days later it reached Cape Cod, far from where it was meant to land, and half the passengers died that winter.

Sep 6, 2026

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Gunmen Climbed a Fence Into the Olympic Village, and the Games Never Felt the Same Again

Gunmen Climbed a Fence Into the Olympic Village, and the Games Never Felt the Same Again

On September 5, 1972, Palestinian gunmen took Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were killed. The tragedy changed how the world secures major events.

Sep 5, 2026

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Two Graduate Students Filed Incorporation Papers and Started Organizing the Internet

Two Graduate Students Filed Incorporation Papers and Started Organizing the Internet

Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998, in a garage in Menlo Park. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had built a better way to rank web pages, and it turned into one of the largest companies on Earth.

Sep 4, 2026

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Britain Signed a Piece of Paper in Paris and Lost an Empire in North America

Britain Signed a Piece of Paper in Paris and Lost an Empire in North America

The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War. Britain recognized the independence of the thirteen colonies and gave up territory stretching to the Mississippi.

Sep 3, 2026

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A Fire Started in a Baker's Shop and Burned Down Most of a Capital City

A Fire Started in a Baker's Shop and Burned Down Most of a Capital City

The Great Fire of London began in the early hours of September 2, 1666. Over four days it destroyed thirteen thousand houses and old St Paul's Cathedral, and remade the city that rose from the ashes.

Sep 2, 2026

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At Dawn the Guns Opened Fire on a Polish Fort, and the World Had Six Years of War Ahead

At Dawn the Guns Opened Fire on a Polish Fort, and the World Had Six Years of War Ahead

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Two days later Britain and France declared war. The conflict that followed killed more people than any other event in human history.

Sep 1, 2026

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Five Murders in the Fog Made the World's Most Famous Killer, and He Was Never Caught

Five Murders in the Fog Made the World's Most Famous Killer, and He Was Never Caught

On August 31, 1888, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found in Whitechapel, the first of the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. The killer was never identified, and the case still haunts London.

Aug 31, 2026

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A Teenager on a Rainy Night Invented Science Fiction and the Modern Monster

A Teenager on a Rainy Night Invented Science Fiction and the Modern Monster

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797. At eighteen she conceived Frankenstein, a novel that created a genre, gave the world its most enduring monster, and asked questions we are still asking.

Aug 30, 2026

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The Superpower's Monopoly on Doomsday Lasted Just Four Years

The Superpower's Monopoly on Doomsday Lasted Just Four Years

The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949, years before the West expected. The American nuclear monopoly ended, and the arms race that would define the Cold War began.

Aug 29, 2026

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A Quarter of a Million People Marched, and One Dream Changed a Nation

A Quarter of a Million People Marched, and One Dream Changed a Nation

On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech that defined the civil rights movement, before a crowd of a quarter million at the Lincoln Memorial.

Aug 28, 2026

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The Loudest Sound in Recorded History Circled the Earth Seven Times

The Loudest Sound in Recorded History Circled the Earth Seven Times

Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883, in one of the most violent explosions ever recorded. It destroyed most of an island, killed more than thirty-six thousand people, and altered skies around the world.

Aug 27, 2026

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The Day the Longbow Broke the Age of the Knight

The Day the Longbow Broke the Age of the Knight

At the Battle of Crecy on August 26, 1346, an outnumbered English army destroyed the flower of French chivalry with massed archers. It signaled the beginning of the end for the armored knight.

Aug 26, 2026

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Paris Rose Up, and the City of Light Was Free Again

Paris Rose Up, and the City of Light Was Free Again

Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, after four years of Nazi occupation. Its German commander defied Hitler's order to burn the city, and De Gaulle marched through streets that Parisians had already begun to free themselves.

Aug 25, 2026

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A Mountain Exploded and Froze a Roman City in Time

A Mountain Exploded and Froze a Roman City in Time

Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24, 79 AD, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash. The catastrophe killed thousands and preserved an entire Roman world exactly as it was in its final hours.

Aug 24, 2026

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Two Immigrants Died in the Electric Chair, and the World Cried Injustice

Two Immigrants Died in the Electric Chair, and the World Cried Injustice

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927, after a trial widely condemned as unfair. The case of the two Italian anarchists became a global symbol of prejudice and the fragility of justice.

Aug 23, 2026

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A King Died in the Mud, and the Middle Ages Ended in England

A King Died in the Mud, and the Middle Ages Ended in England

Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485, the last English king to die in battle. His defeat by Henry Tudor ended the Wars of the Roses and began the Tudor age.

Aug 22, 2026

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The Theft That Made the Mona Lisa the Most Famous Painting on Earth

The Theft That Made the Mona Lisa the Most Famous Painting on Earth

On August 21, 1911, a handyman walked into the Louvre and walked out with the Mona Lisa under his coat. The two years it was missing turned a revered painting into a global obsession.

Aug 21, 2026

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