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United States2021Elections
Senate acquitted Trump of incitement over the Capitol riot, cementing Republican protection of a sitting president's actions.
president and only federal official to be impeached twice. - summary
Global2001
On this day (08/25), 25 years ago: American singer Aaliyah and several members of her entourage are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
Aaliyah started to work on the album in 1998, but rescheduled its recording around her developing film career. - summary
United States2000Disasters
The collapse of inflated internet stock valuations wiped trillions from markets and ended a decade of speculative excess.
Nasdaq Decline from Peak: 78% drop by October 2002 - key fact
Israel1993Wars
The handshake that changed everything. For about five minutes.
For decades, Israelis and Palestinians had fought without sitting down to negotiate face-to-face. - summary
Japan1964Tech launches
Shinkansen Bullet Train Opens
The system was developed to provide connections between Tokyo and other regions of the country. - summary
United States1937Disasters
The catastrophic fire that destroyed the German passenger airship in New Jersey killed 35 people and ended the era of rigid airship travel in a single, filmed moment.
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. - summary
Belgium1910Protests
International anarchist delegates convened to coordinate revolutionary strategy, reflecting the era's transnational radical organizing against capitalist states.
The 1910 Brussels Tournament was an international ice hockey tournament held in Brussels, Belgium from December 29–31, 1910. - summary
United States1877Elections
The Compromise of 1877 settled the disputed Hayes-Tilden election and withdrew federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction and enabling Jim Crow's rise.
Electoral votes disputed: 20 electoral votes from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina - key fact
England1707Revolutions
Act of Union with Scotland
Scottish Parliament vote: 110 to 69 in favor, January 16, 1707 - key fact
Germany1648Wars
This treaty ended the Thirty Years' War, established the nation-state system as Europe's governing principle, and secularized international relations.
The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. - summary
Germany1648Wars
The treaties that concluded the Thirty Years' War established the principle of sovereign nation-states and reshaped European political order.
In a societal sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. - summary
France843Wars
The partition of Charlemagne's empire established the modern borders of France, Germany, and Italy, codifying European geopolitics for centuries.
The Treaty of Verdun, agreed to on 10 August 843, ended the Carolingian civil war and divided the Carolingian Empire between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I. - summary
Sumer3200 BCETech launches
Sumerian cuneiform emerged as humanity's first written language, permanently transforming record-keeping, administration, and the preservation of knowledge.
Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged from a system of proto-writing, where a small number of ideographs were used in a manner incapable of fully encoding language, and thus … - summary
Global30000 BCEFestivals
Widespread Upper Paleolithic culture demonstrates continental-scale human cultural exchange, art production, and social organization.
22,000 BP, close to the Last Glacial Maximum, although some elements lasted until c. - summary
Turkey9650 BCEWars
Archaeological evidence of organized human violence and mass death in a Neolithic community provides the earliest known attestation of large-scale conflict between settlements.
Çayönü Tepesi is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from circa 8,630 to 6,800 BC. - summary
Global9000 BCETech launches
The development of basket and textile weaving techniques around 9000 BCE in early settlements enabled the storage and transport of crops, supporting agrarian expansion.
A patent, if granted, gives the inventor a proprietary interest in the patent over a specific period of time, which can be licensed for financial gain. - summary
Egypt9000 BCEFestivals
Ritual deposits and ceremonial gatherings of Nile Valley hunter-gatherers, revealing earliest organized spiritual practices in Northeast Africa.
Wadi Qelt, in Hebrew Nahal Prat, formerly Naḥal Faran, is a valley, riverine gulch or stream in the West Bank, originating near Jerusalem and running into the Jordan River near Jericho, shortly before it flows into th… - summary
Iraq2800 BCEElections
Sumerian temple records describe democratic council governance and leadership selection contests, among the earliest documented electoral processes in human civilization.
Uruk stood at the centre of the ancient world around 2800 BCE. - summary
United Kingdom2022Elections
Liz Truss became Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister, lasting just 49 days in September 2022 before resignations and economic turmoil forced her out.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. - summary
Global2005
On this day (07/29), 21 years ago: Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year. - summary