February 6th in History
Elizabeth II becomes Queen! Adam Weishaupt, Aaron Burr, Babe Ruth, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Bob Marley are born; Arthur Ashe, Jack Kirby, and Frankie Laine die. Happy Waitangi Day!
Read MoreMarch 15th in History
Caesar stabbed! Plus, Maine secedes from Massachusetts and Germany is reunified. It's the birthday of will.i.am, Jimmy Swaggart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harry James, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Andrew Jackson. RIP Benjamin Spock, Ari Onassis, Lester Young, and H. P. Lovecraft. Happy Дзень Канстытуцы!
Read MoreMarch 16th in History
Massacre in My Lai, Nebuchadnezzar captures Jerusalem to begin the Babylonian Captivity, Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, and Mississippi outlaws slavery...in 1995. It's the birthday of Jerry Lewis, Pat Nixon, Josef Mengele, Henny Youngman, and Georg Ohm; RIP Arthur Godfrey, T. Bone Walker, Judge Roy Bean, and Emperor Tiberius of Rome. In Latvia, it's the Day of the Book Smugglers; in parts of Minnesota it's St. Urdu's Day, celebrating the hero who drove the grasshoppers from Finland!
Read MoreMarch 17th in History
Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this day, Italy was unified, the Ludendorff Bridge was destroyed, Californium was synthesized, Vanguard I was launched, and the Dalai Lama fled Tibet. It's the birthday of John Sebastian, John Wayne Gacy, Nureyev, and Nat King Cole; Helen Hayes, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Fred Allen, and Marcus Aurelius died — as did the voice of Woody Woodpecker voice and the Robin Hood of Slovakia.
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