On January 27, 1820, at the outer edge of the known world, a Russian naval expedition pressed south through ice-choked seas and altered humanity’s map of the planet. Commanded by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, the voyage approached what is now…
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Trajan, born in 53 AD in Italica, a Roman colony in present-day Spain, rose through the ranks of the Roman military to become one of the greatest military commanders and administrators in Roman history. On July 27, 98, the genius military commander became Roman…
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On January 27, 1776, an extraordinary achievement of the American Revolutionary War reached its climax. Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, delivering the heavy weaponry that would become crucial in the fight for independence. This remarkable accomplishment showcased the ingenuity,…
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On January 26, 1564, the Council of Trent concluded its extensive efforts to clarify and define Roman Catholic doctrine, creating a lasting division between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The council, convened in response to the Protestant Reformation, met intermittently over 18 years from 1545…
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On January 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton said something on national television that became a defining aspect of his presidency: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in the…
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On January 25, 1971, one of the most infamous crime sprees in American history reached its legal conclusion. Charles Manson and four members of his so-called “Family” were found guilty for their roles in the brutal Tate–LaBianca murders, a verdict that brought a grim…
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On January 25, 1858, a remarkable event took place at the Chapel Royal in St. James’s Palace, London, when Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, married Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. This wedding was not only a union of two powerful royal families but also…
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In January 1787, the future of the United States of America and its newly-formed nation appeared to be unraveling at the seams when hundreds of Revolutionary War veterans launched an insurrection. The rebellion took place in western Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787, led by…
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On January 24, 1848, a carpenter named James W. Marshall bent down along the American River and unknowingly altered the trajectory of a continent. What he found glittering in the cold water near Sutter’s Mill was not merely a fleck of metal, but the…
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On January 24, 1935, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, New Jersey, changed beer drinking forever when it introduced the first commercially available canned beer, a groundbreaking innovation that transformed the beverage industry. This development revolutionized how beer was packaged, distributed, and consumed,…
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