Year Progress

Keeping track of the year, one day at a time.

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Today In History (1940): World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys (...)

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Today In History (1875): The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.

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Today In History (1962): Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.

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Today In History (2016): Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently kil (...)

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Today In History (1933): The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4-2.

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Today In History (1643): The battle of Landsdowne results in severe losses for both the Royalist and Parliamentarian forces.

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Today In History (414): Aelia Pulcheria takes a vow of chastity and is proclaimed Augusta, thus becoming the regent of the Byzantine Empire for her 13 year old brother Theodosius II after the death of the previous regent, prae (...)

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Today In History (1608): Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

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Today In History (626): Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

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Today In History (1949): The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Co (...)

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Today In History (2023): A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

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Today In History (2002): Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

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Today In History (1870): The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

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Today In History (1995): Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

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Today In History (699): En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.

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Today In History (1944): World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.

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Today In History (2013): Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

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Today In History (1969): The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Today In History (1848): In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.

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Today In History (1756): A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.