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The Great Kantō Earthquake: How Japan’s Deadliest Natural Disaster Destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama on September 1, 1923
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The Great Kantō Earthquake: How Japan’s Deadliest Natural Disaster Destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama on September 1, 1923

At eleven minutes and fifty-eight seconds past noon on Saturday, September 1, 1923, as millions of families across Tokyo and Yokohama were preparing lunch over cooking fires and ch

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The Carrington Event: How the Largest Recorded Solar Storm Paralyzed the World’s Telegraph Systems on September 1–2, 1859
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The Carrington Event: How the Largest Recorded Solar Storm Paralyzed the World’s Telegraph Systems on September 1–2, 1859

On the morning of September 1, 1859, a thirty-three-year-old English amateur astronomer named Richard Christopher Carrington climbed to the private observatory attached to his coun

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Principia Published: How Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Appeared on July 5, 1687 and Transformed the Human Understanding of the Universe
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Principia Published: How Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Appeared on July 5, 1687 and Transformed the Human Understanding of the Universe

On July 5, 1687, a book appeared in London that changed the world. Its title, in the Latin that all serious natural philosophy was then conducted, was Philosophiae Naturalis Princi

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Venezuela Independence: How the First Spanish American Republic Declared Freedom from Spain on July 5, 1811
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Venezuela Independence: How the First Spanish American Republic Declared Freedom from Spain on July 5, 1811

On July 5, 1811, in the grand hall of the newly established National Congress in Caracas, forty delegates of the seven united provinces of Venezuela cast their votes for a document

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The First Package Tour: How Thomas Cook Organized the World’s First Publicly Advertised Excursion on July 5, 1841 and Invented Modern Tourism
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The First Package Tour: How Thomas Cook Organized the World’s First Publicly Advertised Excursion on July 5, 1841 and Invented Modern Tourism

On the morning of July 5, 1841, a brass band struck up at Leicester’s Campbell Street Railway Station, and approximately 485 members of the Leicester Temperance Society climb

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