Today in 1812, the writer Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France. Flaubert is today best remembered as the author of the novel Madame Bovary.
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Today in 1941, Adolf Hitler declared war on America. It was four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, formally a neutral party in the War...
Today is Emily Dickinson’s birthday. She was born today in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830.
Dickinson, one of America’s most celebrated and enduring...
Today in 1941 was the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the sea-change moment that drew the United States into World War II.
A Japanese bomber pierced the clouds above...
Today in 1884, the Washington Monument was completed. Workers finalized the monument with a nine-inch pyramid, made of aluminum, that topped off the marble...
Today in 1991, Lebanese Islamic militants released Terry Anderson, an American journalist they had held captive for 2,454 consecutive days.
Anderson was the...
Modern readers may not be familiar with The Grange – an organization of farmers founded in 1867 by Oliver Hudson Kelley. The Grange was a popular...
Today in 1967, a South African grocer named Louis Washkansky, then fifty-three years old, became history’s first recipient of a human heart transplant...
Imagine finding a mysterious safe in an old storage locker. Think about all the possibilities of what could be inside. Now picture your life changing the...
Today in 1835, celebrated author and orator Mark Twain is born in Florida, Missouri.
Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, got his first professional writing job in...