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The Free City of Danzig is established #OTD in 1920.
15.11.2025 06:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Moby-Dick, the great American novel, is published #OTD in 1951, almost a full month after its British publication.
14.11.2025 06:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to historian Robert Bonnaud.
13.11.2025 09:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Britney Spearsβ 14-year conservatorship is formally ended by the L.A. Superior Court #OTD in 2021.
12.11.2025 10:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets and defines transubstantiation #OTD in 1215.
11.11.2025 06:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Nigerian government executes the Ogoni Nine, including the leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ken Saro-Wiwa, #OTD in 1995.
10.11.2025 06:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jack the Ripper murders his final victim #OTD in 1888.
09.11.2025 09:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mary Lyon founds my Alma mater #OTD in 1837. As my advisor, Lipman, would say, βkinky!β Anything cool was βkinky.β It just was.
09.11.2025 04:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0JesΓΊs GarcΓa becomes el hΓ©roe de Nacozari #OTD in 1907, when he sacrifices himself for the town by driving a train set to explode 3.7 miles from the residents.
07.11.2025 07:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, lead the government program of coercive and involuntary sterilization in Uttawar, rounding up 800 mostly Meo Muslim men to undergo forced vasectomies #OTD in 1976.
06.11.2025 06:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to historian and investigative journalist Ida Tarbell.
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THIS IS A SIGN
04.11.2025 17:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cardinal Thomas Wolsey is arrested for treason #OTD in 1530, after failing to obtain an annulment for Henry VIII.
04.11.2025 09:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Laika deserves better #OTD in 1957.
03.11.2025 06:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Haile Selassieβs coronation as Emperor of Ethiopia, the last of the Solomonic dynasty, occurs #OTD in 1930.
02.11.2025 06:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy Native American Heritage Month!
01.11.2025 06:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Martin Luther nails all 95 of his Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg #OTD in 1517.
31.10.2025 06:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the tomb of the former and interred near the Kremlin Wall #OTD in 1961.
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Today!
28.10.2025 07:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Michael Servetus, denounced by Catholics and Calvinists alike, is burned at the stake as a heretic #OTD in 1553, which sucks, because he seems like a cool guy.
27.10.2025 05:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The supersonic Concorde makes its final commercial flight #OTD in 2003, retiring after some 27 years after its first commercial flight.
26.10.2025 09:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday to historian Martin Gilbert.
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We have awesome events next week!
24.10.2025 10:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Captain Carlo Maria Piazza becomes the first pilot to fly an airplane in a wartime recon mission #OTD in 1911, during Italo-Turkish War.
23.10.2025 05:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Montparnasse derailment, which takes place #OTD in 1895, becomes the fodder for art-y posters in dorm rooms a century later.
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Itβs the tenth anniversary of Back to the Future Day.
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Support our amazing majors, like Hope, this Give Day!
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The Sydney Opera House opens #OTD in 1973, 14 years after construction begins.
20.10.2025 08:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Streptomycin is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University #OTD in 1943.
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