The cornerstone for the White House, the official office and home of every U.S. president and first lady since 1800 (when John and Abigail Adams moved in near the end of his term), was laid this day i...
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Margaret Thatcher "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret ThatcherBritish Conservative politician Margaret Thatcher, born this day in 1925, was Europe's first woman prime m...
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The New World was discovered this day in 1492 when land (most likely San Salvador) was sighted in the Caribbean from the Pinta, one of the three ships that participated in Christopher Columbus's histo...
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Luciano PavarottiBorn on this day in Modena, Italy, in 1935, Luciano Pavarotti, an operatic lyric tenor noted for his mastery of the highest notes of a tenor's range, is considered one of the finest b...
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The Second Vatican Council, announced by Pope John XXIII in 1959, opened this day in 1962, lasted for three years, and remains a symbol (controversial to some) of the church's readiness to adapt to mo...
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Eleanor Roosevelt "The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now." Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt, born this day in 1884, was a United...
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To improve the then-unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen, George Bancrofthistorian, educator, and secretary of the navyfounded the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on this day in...
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Giuseppe VerdiBorn October 9 or 10, 1813, Giuseppe Verdi was the leading Italian composer of the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), La traviata (1853), Aida (1871), and Falstaff ...
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On this day in 2004, for the first time in Afghanistan's history, voters went to the polls to choose a president, selecting Hamid Karzai, who had served as the interim president after the fall of the ...
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Charles X "Can he believe that a coronation ceremony will keep him safe from all misfortune? There is no longer any hand virtuous enough to cure scrofula, or any holy phial beneficial enough to render...
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On this day in 1949, a constitution went into effect in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany that formed the country of East Germany, which existed alongside West Germany until 1990, when the two Ger...
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Desmond TutuAnglican cleric Desmond Tutu, born this day in 1931, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1984 for his role in opposing apartheid in South Africa, and he later headed a committee investigating...
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On this day in 1973, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, which suffered heavy casualties, but Israeli forces successfully fought back, and the war eventually ended i...
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Thor Heyerdahl "I feel that I am a typical Norwegian. I feel that I have the same love for nature, the mountains, the forests, the fjords, as all my fellow Norwegians, the same sense for adventure and...
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On this day in 1813, during the War of 1812, a British army with some 1,000 Indian allies under the famed leader Tecumseh was defeated by U.S. troops in the Battle of the Thames in what is now Ontario...
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Václav HavelCzech writer and dissident Václav Havel, born this day in 1936, was known for his absurdist depiction of bureaucratic routines and later served as president of Czechoslovakia (198992) and ...
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On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which orbited the Earth until 1958, inaugurated the space age, and heightened Cold War competition between the ...
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Charlton HestonAmerican actor Charlton Heston, born this day in 1924 and best known for his performances in Ben-Hur (for which he won an Academy Award) and The Ten Commandments, also served as preside...
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After four decades of Cold War division and with pressure from the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to a unified Germany within NATO, leading to Germany's reunific...
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Saint Francis of AssisiSt. Francis of Assisi, who died this day in 1226, founded the Franciscan order and stressed the need to imitate the life of Jesus, drawing followers with his evangelical zeal, c...
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