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I want you to follow @historycalendar if you:
✅ love learning obscure historical trivia
✅ want to learn the hard truths of history
✅ discover often overlooked historic figures
✅ enjoy threads…
✅ literally anything history related

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Grand Central in NYC. This view is no longer possible, for neighboring building block sunlight from entering higher windows like this. Also, smoking restrictions prevent the haze seen here. 1929.

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Samuel Sprague (1753-1844) was one of the few participants in the Boston Tea Party to have been photographed later in life. Below is Sprague, age 89, in 1842.

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A construction worker takes a break from building the iconic Chrysler Building, New York City, 1930.

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As the United States nears its 250th year of existence, it is still a young nation in the grand scheme of things. The Roman Republic, for instance, existed for nearly five centuries (509 BC - 27 BC).

If the United States survived as long as the Roman Republic, it would cease to exist in the year 2258.

If it were to become an empire and survive as long as the Western Roman Empire, it wouldn’t fall until 2760.

If the United States instead survived as long as the Eastern Roman Empire, it would fall in the year 3737.

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Construction worker taking a coffee break on the job in Chicago, 1964.

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Daguerreotype of Albert Gallatin, only photograph taken of him. Gallatin served as a Senator during George Washington’s second term. Photo c. 1844–1849

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July 2, 1962 — The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787

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July 2, 1937 — Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

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@NWSAlbany I see KPOU might've reached 103° at 3:53pm... wonder if we can eek out a way to tie the all-time record 👀

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Gettysburg as viewed from Seminary Ridge, photographed in 1863.

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President Ronald Reagan has lunch with a University of Alabama student, 1984.

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July 2, 1934 — The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.

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July 2, 1776 — John Adams writes to Abigail Adams predicting July 2 would forever be celebrated with “Pomp and Parade… Bonfires and Illuminations.”

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July 2, 1921 — World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.

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July 2, 1900 — An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.

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@CouldntBePapaP I changed my profile pic the other day, that’s likely what’s up. But hell, doubt your simple brain won’t believe that either.

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41 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence owned enslaved people... or about 73% of them.

Those who owned slaves in 1776 have their faces covered:

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American Civil War veterans at Gettysburg National Military Park, 50 years after the battle, 1913.

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July 2, 1871 — Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.

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@ChasThompson1 Exactly! Without his invention New York likely would still be the population king of the nation.