On June 30, 1882, a presidential assassin met his fate following his shooting of President James Garfield, a wound that eventually killed the 20th president. The National Parks service explains that even by nineteenth-century standards, “Guiteau was obviously mentally ill. He considered himself a…
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On a summer day in 1888, in a London church brimming with both acoustics and ambition, George Edward Gouraud—an American-born Civil War veteran turned English promoter—captured something no one before him had ever successfully preserved in such form: the grandeur of classical choral music,…
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The Globe Theatre, an iconic symbol of the English Renaissance and intimately associated with William Shakespeare, experienced a devastating fire on June 29, 1613. This fire not only obliterated a physical landmark of Elizabethan theater but also marked a significant moment in the history…
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On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed a law that led to one of the greatest manmade wonders ever built: The United States Highway System. This act would become the biggest public works project in American history. “By the late 1930s, writes The Department of Transportation,…
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In the feverish days leading up to American independence, when the fate of the colonies teetered between rebellion and subjugation, the Continental Army faced not only threats from British redcoats but from within its own ranks. On June 28, 1776, Thomas Hickey—a private in…
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On a summer night meant to settle a grudge and crown a champion, the world of boxing witnessed instead one of the most shocking meltdowns in sports history. In just three rounds inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Mike Tyson didn’t just lose a…
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On June 28, 1914, the world changed forever when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was murdered in Sarajevo. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his assassination by a Bosnian Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, set off a chain of events that led…
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On June 27, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon arrived in Moscow for what would be his final summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev—a visit overshadowed by scandal at home and a shifting geopolitical order abroad. Though the meeting marked a continuation of the historic…
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The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain stands as a stark reminder of the brutal and unyielding nature of the American Civil War. Fought from June 27 to July 2, 1864, it was a significant clash between the Union Army commanded by Major General William T.…
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Hungry sailors are not to be trifled with. That’s what happened aboard the Russian battleship the Potemkin on June 27, 1905. Spoiled meat sparked a storm of rebellion that echoed across revolutionary-minded Russia. The US Naval Institute helps contextualize things: “For a century before 1905, Imperial Russia was…
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