On June 30, 1688, seven English noblemen—two earls, a viscount, a bishop, and three barons—sent a covert letter to William of Orange, inviting him to intervene militarily in England and promising their support in overthrowing King James II. Known to history as the “Immortal…
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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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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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It was a moment suspended between science and scripture: on June 26, 2000, mankind read the first legible draft of its own instruction manual. In simultaneous announcements from Washington, D.C. and London, leaders of the public Human Genome Project and its private-sector competitor, Celera…
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On June 25, 1947, The Diary of a Young Girl—commonly known as The Diary of Anne Frank—was first published, forever embedding itself into the collective conscience as one of the most poignant accounts of human suffering and resilience during World War II. Anne Frank,…
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The morning of June 24, 1314, dawned on a sodden and bloodied field near the Bannock Burn, where the fate of a nation hung by a thread. By day’s end, that thread would not snap but be reforged into iron. Against impossible odds, a…
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On June 23, 1280—amid the smoldering tension of Iberia’s long spiritual war—a Castilian host rode into the mountains west of Granada, bearing the cross upon their banners and the weight of Christendom on their shoulders. These were not mere soldiers of a temporal crown.…
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