Rush-hour traffic on Massachusetts Avenue was just beginning to thicken when a thunderous blast tore through Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C. on September 21, 1976. A car carrying Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador and outspoken critic of General Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, erupted…
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On September 21, 1792, the French National Convention made a groundbreaking decision that changed the course of French history: they abolished the monarchy. This act came at a crucial point during the French Revolution, a time of political, social, and economic upheaval. The monarchy,…
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During September 1780, one of America’s earliest heroes turned traitor. Benedict Arnold’s treason stands as one of the most infamous acts of betrayal in American history, forever etched in the annals of the American Revolutionary War. Arnold, a prominent military leader in the Continental…
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On September 20, 1973, tennis legend Billie Jean King faced Bobby Riggs in a highly publicized match known as the “Battle of the Sexes” at the Houston Astrodome. This event captivated the world as it symbolized more than just a tennis competition; it became…
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On September 20, 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea route to the Spice Islands, looking to change the ocean-going world. This epic journey, which began in 1519 and concluded in 1522, marked the first successful…
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On September 19, 1944, the United States Army entered a dense, forbidding tract of woodland along the German–Belgian border known as the Hürtgen Forest. What began that morning as a push to clear the area for the advance into the Rhineland would spiral into…
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The Battle of Chickamauga, fought between September 19 and 20, 1863, marked one of the major conflicts of the American Civil War, involving the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee. The battle took place in northwestern Georgia, near Chickamauga…
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On September 19, 1796, the father of the United States left the stage for a final time, retiring to “sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree” at Mount Vernon. “After two terms in office, Washington decided to retire from public life, writes the…
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On September 18, 1850, the United States Congress passed and President Millard Fillmore signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, one of the most divisive and consequential pieces of legislation in American history. As part of the Compromise of 1850—a fragile political…
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On September 18, 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany and his schoolmate John B. Young opened a store in New York City under the name “Tiffany & Young.” The establishment, located at 259 Broadway, was described as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium,” a phrase that…
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