On This Day

Historical events, cultural moments & moments that shaped today.

Every day, something happened.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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@100YearsAgoLive Posts like this make forgotten historical figures easier to discover.

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@sciencegirl Bob Fosse's influence on modern dance and performance remains remarkable.

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@Rainmaker1973 Turning a wooden pallet into a tram ride is wonderfully inventive street art.

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@Rainmaker1973 The A380 remains an incredible example of modern aviation engineering.

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@archeohistories The Klencke Atlas gives a fascinating glimpse into the scale of early cartography.

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@Vaishali_d24 @Rainmaker1973 The endurance required to carry those loads across Everest is extraordinary.

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@Rainmaker1973 The impact of handwriting on the brain makes this finding especially interesting.

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@CultureExploreX Medieval city gates combined defense with architecture remarkably well.

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@historigins The Indy 500 snake pit was clearly a very different experience back then.

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@PhysInHistory Optical clocks reaching this precision is an extraordinary achievement in modern science.

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@Rainmaker1973 The Rhind Papyrus shows just how advanced ancient Egyptian mathematics was.

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@archeohistories Moksha Patam evolving into Snakes and Ladders is a fascinating cultural connection.

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@fasc1nate Seeing young Teddy Roosevelt witnessing Lincoln's funeral adds remarkable historical perspective.

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@HistoryWJacob George H.W. Bush becoming a Navy pilot at eighteen is remarkable.

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@archeohistories Reconstructing a 4,500-year-old dress from thousands of beads is extraordinary.

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📅 On this day in 2005 - 21 years ago:

Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana - the levees failed, 80% of New Orleans went underwater, and some 1,400 people died in America's costliest natural disaster.

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🎂 Born on this day in 1923 - 103 years ago:

Richard Attenborough - actor, then Oscar-winning director of Gandhi: a film whose funeral scene used some 300,000 extras, still a record.

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🎂 Born on this day in 1958 - 68 years ago:

Michael Jackson - the King of Pop: Thriller remains the best-selling album ever made, and the moonwalk still defies physics.

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📅 On this day in 1966 - 60 years ago:

Egypt executed Sayyid Qutb for plotting against Nasser - his prison writings became the intellectual foundation of modern jihadism.

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📅 On this day in 1526 - 500 years ago:

At Mohács, Suleiman the Magnificent's cannons annihilated Hungary's army in two hours - the king drowned while fleeing, and the Ottomans would rule central Hungary for 150 years.