As cold winds swept across New England, the uneasy peace between the English colonists and the region’s Native nations finally broke apart. On this day, Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow led a combined colonial militia into the field against the Narragansett, marking a critical…
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“This is KDKA of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We shall now broadcast the election returns. We are receiving these returns through the cooperation and by special arrangement with the Pittsburgh Post and Sun. We’d appreciate it if anyone…
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On the morning of November 1, 1870, a terse telegraph message pulsed across the new wires of the Western Union system from Washington, D.C. It marked a small beginning for something that would come to shape daily life, commerce, and national safety for generations:…
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On November 1, 1800, President John Adams became the first leader of the young United States to reside in what would later be known as the White House, marking a pivotal moment in American history. Although still unfinished, the stately Executive Mansion represented the…
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On October 31, 683 A.D., fire consumed the holiest sanctuary in Islam. During the bloody Siege of Mecca—the climax of the Second Fitna, or second great Muslim civil war—the Kaaba itself was set ablaze amid fierce fighting between the Umayyad Caliphate and the rebel…
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On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, a young theology professor, took a daring step that would ignite the Protestant Reformation, reshaping both Christianity and European society. Luther, an Augustinian monk and scholar at the University of Wittenberg in Saxony, was increasingly troubled by certain…
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In the autumn of 1888, beneath the vast African sky of Matabeleland, a seemingly routine agreement was inked between British traders and a local monarch. Yet the document—later known as the Rudd Concession—would alter the map of southern Africa and inaugurate a new stage…
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On October 30, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Allied nations, marking a pivotal point in the United States’ role in World War II. This decision expanded the scope of the Lend-Lease Act, passed by Congress in March…
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The morning of October 29, 312, dawned over a city poised between dread and deliverance. Two days earlier, on the banks of the Tiber just north of Rome, the armies of Constantine and Maxentius had met in a climactic struggle that would reshape the…
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The Suez Crisis, also known as the Second Arab-Israeli War or the Tripartite Aggression, began on October 29, 1956, when Israeli forces invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, sparking a global diplomatic and military confrontation with implications that rippled throughout the Middle East and beyond. The…
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