This Day: Luther Nails Down a Revolution
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A German monk pinned a list of ninety-five academic arguments to a church door and accidentally cracked...
This Day: The Night America Panicked Over Martians
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds convinced thousands of listeners that Martians...
This Day: Black Tuesday
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor The New York Stock Exchange collapsed under the weight of 16 million traded shares, vaporizing fortunes...
This Day: Liberty Enlightening the World
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A 151-foot copper woman draped in robes was unveiled in New York Harbor, and America got its most...
This Day: The Man Who Said No
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Deep in the Caribbean, a Soviet submarine officer refused to fire a nuclear torpedo and quietly kept the...
This Day: The Erie Canal Opens
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A 363-mile ditch dug by hand through the New York wilderness connected the Atlantic to the Great Lakes...
This Day: Agincourt: The Mud, the Mad, and the Miracle
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A starving, outnumbered English army destroyed the flower of French chivalry in a Normandy mudfield, on a...
This Day: The Peace of Westphalia
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor After thirty years of war that killed an estimated eight million people, European powers signed treaties...
This Day: The Day the World Began (According to One Archbishop)
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Archbishop James Ussher used the Bible like a math problem and calculated that the universe began at...
This Day: The Day the World Was Supposed to End
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Tens of thousands of American believers gave away their possessions and waited on hilltops for Jesus...
This Day: Nelson Dies Winning at Trafalgar
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Off the coast of Spain, Britain's navy shattered Napoleon's fleet and killed any hope of invasion — and...
This Day: The Saturday Night Massacre
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Richard Nixon ordered the firing of the Watergate special prosecutor, triggering resignations and a...
This Day: The World Turned Upside Down
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Lord Cornwallis surrendered his entire army at Yorktown, effectively ending Britain's war to keep its...
This Day: Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor With one signature, the Sun King outlawed Protestantism in France and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing...
This Day: The Surrender at Saratoga
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A British army surrendered whole in the New York wilderness, and the American Revolution stopped looking...
This Day: The Queen Goes to the Scaffold
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, was guillotined in Paris nine months after her husband,...
This Day: The Execution of Mata Hari
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A Dutch exotic dancer accused of spying for Germany was shot by a French firing squad outside Paris, and...
This Day: The Battle of Hastings
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor A Norman duke with a shaky claim to the English throne killed a king and rewrote the entire future of...
This Day: Friday the Thirteenth, When Kings Hunted Knights
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor King Philip IV of France ordered the sudden mass arrest of the Knights Templar, launching a purge that...
This Day: Columbus Lands, and Two Worlds Collide
Follow @thisdaynewsletter on Instagram ↗ The Anchor After ten weeks at sea, three Spanish ships hit land in the Bahamas, and the Americas and Europe stopped...
