In the early hours of August 2, 1943, in the profound darkness of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands, a twenty-six-year-old naval lieutenant named John F. Kennedy stood in the
On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter addressed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from his summer cottage at Nassau Point in Peconic, Long Island. The letter was rela
At 9:00 in the morning on August 2, 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg died at his country estate in Neudeck, East Prussia. He was eighty-six years old, and had been suffer
On August 2, 1776, in the assembly room of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, the president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock of Massachusetts, stepped forward a
On the morning of August 2, 216 BC, the largest army the Roman Republic had ever assembled marched toward battle on the plain near the village of Cannae in Apulia, in the heel of s
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
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
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
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
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
