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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme—and Today in History is where we connect the past to the present. Each article explores a significant event that happened on this day, unpacking its historical relevance and drawing the most thought-provoking parallels to today’s world.

Whether it’s a groundbreaking moment, a cautionary tale, or a forgotten story with surprising modern echoes, Today in History reminds us that the lessons of the past are always worth revisiting. After all, understanding yesterday is key to shaping tomorrow.

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This Day in History: When the Air Itself Betrayed Us

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Picture it. Ypres, Belgium. Springtime. Birdsong in the distance. The smell of damp earth. And the gentle promise of a breeze—ah yes, a breeze....
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This Day in History: The Day Grief Dared to Speak—and Was Silenced

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It started, as so many things do, with a funeral. Or rather, the absence of one befitting the man being mourned. Hu Yaobang was no...

This Day in History: The Day Charles Manson Was Sentenced to Death

This Day in History: The Day the Truth Was Redacted (And the Consequences Were Not)

This Day In History: The Day America Said Yes (And What It Means That We’re Saying No Now)

This Day in History: The Day the Nation Cried in Shock (And Side-Eyed the New Guy)

This Day in History: We Finally Read the Instruction Manual (And It’s Just 3 Billion Letters Long)

This Day in History: The Unhinged Spectacle of MKUltra (America’s Mind-Bending Misadventure)

This Day in History: The Day FDR Dropped the Mic

This Day in History: The Lucasville Stand-Up (A Riot to Remember)

This Day in History: Paul McCartney and the End of The Beatles

This Day in History: The Journey of Reconciliation (When Segregation Met Its Match)

This Day in History: The Day the Income Tax Died

This Day in History: The Neutron Bomb’s Cancellation

This Day in History: When America Decided to Crash Europe’s Biggest Party

This Day in History: Carrie (The Book That Almost Got Tossed!)

This Day in History: The Formation of NATO

This Day in History: Mailbox Mayhem (The Unabomber’s Last Delivery)

This Day in History: When the Titanic Tried to Flex

This Day in History: The Flight of Fancy (Royal Canadian Air Force)

This Day In History: The Clocks That Confuse (Daylight Saving Time)

This Day in History: The Never-Ending Time-Out of Typhoid Mary

This Day in History: That Time the World Agreed Not to Turn Each Other into Zombies

This Day in History: The Scottsboro Boys (You’re Not Gonna Believe This Sh*t)

This Day in History: The Exxon Valdez Spill (When Oil Met Ocean and Everything Went to Hell)

This Day in History: When a Former President Packed His Bags and Said, “Screw It, I’m Going to Africa”

This Day in History: Eisenstadt v. Baird (When the Supreme Court Realized Single People Bone)

This Day in History: The Day Tennessee Banned Science (Because a Guy Read a Pamphlet)

This Day in History: The Day a Book Had America Shook

This Day in History: The Day America Finally Figured Out What Time It Was

This Day in History: America’s Big “Oops, Our Bad” Moment

This Day in History: The Little Satellite That Could (And Still Does!)

This Day in History: The Day Death Fell from the Sky (Remembering the Halabja Massacre)

This Day in History: The Day the Soviet Union Elected Its First and Only President (and Everything Went Bonkers Soon After)

This Day in History: The Day Science Kicked Bacteria’s Ass (And Why Our Healthcare System is Circling the Drain)

This Day in History: The Seikan Tunnel (Because Sometimes, Nature Just Needs to Be Told to Shut Up)

This Day in History: The Day North Korea Gave the World a Nuclear Migraine

This Day in History: The Day the World Got a Hall Monitor for War Crimes

Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Invented Your Worst Phone Call

This Day in History: The Day America Took Charge of Its Destiny (and What It Means for Us Today)

This Day in History: The ‘Evil Empire’ Speech (and the Art of Talking $%&# on the Global Stage)

Bloody Sunday: The Day Alabama Cops Invented the ‘Beatdown for Democracy’

This Day in History: The Day the Michelangelo Virus Reminded Us We’re All One Dumb Click Away from Disaster

This Day in History: How to Lose a Democracy in 10 Easy Steps (A Cautionary Tale from 1933)

This Day in History: The Day Congress Invented the Loophole Hall of Fame

This Day in History: Time’s Up? A Century of Journalism and the War on Reality

This Day in History: Congrats, Puerto Rico—You’re Americans Now! (For Better or Worse)

This Day in History: The Day Iraq Said, “We’ve Had Enough of This BS”

This Day in History: The Twenty-Second Amendment – Because Dictatorships Are So Last Century

This Day in History: The First World Trade Center Bombing (A Warning Nobody Listened To)

This Day in History: The Warsaw Pact (Dead, But Still Haunting Us Like a Bad Ex)

This Day in History: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fascism (A Century of Bad Ideas Making a Comeback)

This Day in History: The Perpetual Lease That Shaped a Geopolitical Enclave

This Day in History: When America Said, “Sure, Why Not Four More?”

This Day in History: The Day the CIA Got Pantsed

This Day in History: 1905: The Supreme Court Tells Anti-Vaxxers to Sit Down (A Lesson We Clearly Haven’t Learned)

This Day in History: The 45-Minute Presidency (The Political Equivalent of a Bathroom Break)

This Day in History: When Cows Fly (The Legendary Tale of Elm Farm Ollie)

This Day in History: Kosovo’s “We’re Outta Here” Moment

This Day in History: From CBBS to Social Media Hell (How We Ruined a Perfectly Good Idea)

This Day in History: The Day a Guy with a Wobbly Chair Almost Changed History

This Day in History: The Government Efficiency Dumpster Fire (A Valentine’s Day Special)

This Day in History: The Crime of the Century (And the Trial That Was Somehow Even More Insane)

This Day in History: The NAACP: 115 Years of Fighting the Good Fight (And Somehow Still Fighting the Same Fight)

This Day in History: The Rosenbergs Get Fried: A Cold War Comedy of Errors

This Day in History: The Day We Realized Presidents Are Just People (And That’s Terrifying)

February 9, 1964: The Night America Got Beatle-Fied

The Orangeburg Massacre: America’s Long-Running Rerun of Racial Injustice

The U.S.-Cuba Embargo: The Breakup That Never Ended

Deportation Nation: America’s Favorite Reality Show

This Day in History: The Immigration Act of 1917 (When America First Went Full “No Vacancy”)

Facebook: 20 Years of Changing the World (for Better or Worse?)

This Day in History: The Day the Music Died: When Rock and Roll Lost Its Groove

This Day in History: Groundhog Day (Shadows, Cycles, and Six More Weeks of This Nonsense)

This Day in History: The Voice of America (State-Sponsored News or Propaganda With a Smile?)

This Day in History: Freedom with an Asterisk (The Thirteenth Amendment and Our Messy Legacy)

This Day in History: When They Bomb Your House, But You’re Still Standing (A History Lesson)

This Day in History: Once Upon a Midnight Dreary (The Birth of ‘The Raven’)

This Day in History: The Challenger Disaster (A Space Tragedy With Lessons That Hit Hard)

This Day in History: Germany, Elon Musk, and the Comedy of Historical Irony

This Day in History: The Day a Presidential Denial Became Comedy Gold

This Day in History: The Coast-to-Coast Chatter That Changed Everything

This Day in History: The Day Taxes Got Legal (A Laughable History of Income Tax)

This Day in History: Madeleine Albright Kicks Down the Door

This Day in History: The Day Women Said, “My Body, My Business”

This Day in History: Remember When Politicians Actually Faced Consequences? Yeah, Me Neither.

This Day in History: A Day of Presidential Weirdness

This Day in History: The Day America Got Its Backbone

This Day in History: Killer Mist (A Story of HVAC Horror)

This Day in History: Prohibition (When the Government Tried to Murder Happy Hour)

This Day in History: The Senate Trial of Donald Trump (The Circus Kicks Off)

This Day in History: The Miracle on the Hudson (What Really Happened?)

This Day in History: The Media Turns 73 (and It’s Having a Midlife Crisis)

This Day in History: The First Black Cabinet Member (Wait, What Took So Long?)

This Day in History: A Century of Struggle (Women’s Fight for the Vote and the Battles That Won’t Quit)

This Day in History: Insulin (A Century-Old Lifesaver Stuck in a Capitalist Circus)

This Day in History: Spindletop (The Day Oil Went Viral)

This Day in History: The Battle of Bear Valley (The Last Standoff of the American Indian Wars)

This Day in History: When Democracy Took a Watergate Swim

This Day in History: Why CQD Needed to Go SOS, and Why We Need One for This Mess

This Day in History: When Democracy Took a Sick Day

This Day in History (January 5): Ford’s $5 Workday (The OG Wage Revolution with a Side of Drama)

This Day in History (January 4): The Day Congress Got a Mom

This Day in History (January 3): Bitcoin at 16 (Are You Still Calling It a Fad?)

This Day in History (January 2): The Day American Courts Finally Got Their Act Together

This Day in History (January 1): The Day Cigarette Ads Were Sent to the Smoker’s Lounge

This Day in History (December 31): How Times Square Got Its Balls (The Story of the First New Year’s Eve Drop)

This Day in History (December 30): The Fall of a Dictator (A Tragicomedy of Power, Justice, and a Gallows’ Timing)

This Day in History (December 29): The Annexation of Texas and the Great Secession Myth

This Day in History (December 28): Muriel Siebert (The Original Wall Street Wonder Woman)

This Day in History (December 27): The Day the World Made a Giant Piggy Bank

This Day in History (December 26): The First Day of Kwanzaa

This Day in History (December 25): The Christmas Day Pardon That Forgave the Confederacy

This Day in History (December 24): The Eggnog Riot (When Cadets at West Point Lost Their Minds Over Booze)

This Day in History (December 23): How Woodrow Wilson Created the Federal Reserve (So We Don’t All Go Flying Off the Roller Coaster)

This Day in History (December 22): Gerald Ford’s Big Barrel of Oil (the One That Saved Our Butts)

This Day in History (December 21): When the Soviet Union Broke Up Without a Body Count

This Day in History (December 20): When South Carolina Walked Out and America’s Biggest Debate Began

This Day in History (December 19): The American Crisis (Then and Now)

This Day in History (December 18): The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump

This Day in History (December 17): General Order No. 11 (When Blaming an Entire Group Was Apparently a Good Idea)

This Day in History (December 16): A Night of Tea and “You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me!”

This Day in History (December 15): The Bill of Rights (Born to Protect, Now a Punchline?)

This Day in History (December 14): Twelve Years Since Sandy Hook (A Painful Legacy, Absurd Denials, and a Call to Action)

This Day in History (December 13): The Battle of Nanking and the Forgotten Holocaust

This Day in History (December 12): Hitler’s Evil Pivot

This Day in History (December 11): When Canada Abolished Capital Punishment

This Day in History (December 10): Human Rights, Torture, and the Day the UN Decided to Write Down What Should Have Been Obvious

This Day in History (December 9): The Day Humanity Eradicated Smallpox and Proved We Can Beat Disease

This Day in History (December 8): The Day the World Changed Forever

This Day in History (December 7): When Delaware Said, “Fine, We’ll Go First” and Ratified the Constitution

This Day in History (December 6): When Ulysses Kicked Censorship in the Teeth

This Day in History (December 5): The Day America Remembered How Repeal Restored the Constitution’s Purpose

This Day in History (December 4): America’s Complicated Dance with the United Nations

This Day in History (December 3): The First Human Heart Transplant (and Why We’re All Gonna Need a New One Soon)

This Day in History (December 2): The Day Benazir Bhutto Made Pakistan Cooler Than America

This Day in History (December 1): The Treaty of Lisbon and What We Could Stand to Learn From It!

Today in History (November 30): All Quiet Along the Potomac (When Poetry Meets Propaganda – and Modern Parallels)

This Day in History (November 29): The Partition of Palestine (A Land Grab Wrapped in a Bible Verse)

This Day in History (November 28): The Velvet Revolution and the Day a Dictatorship Crumbled

This Day in History (November 27): The Assassination of Harvey Milk (The Beginning of the End for Closet Doors)

This Day in History (November 26): Sojourner Truth (The Woman Who Told America to Sit Down and Listen)

This Day in History (November 25): The Hollywood 10, Blacklists and the High Costs of Spinelessness

This Day in History (November 24): The Fire Sale: The Tazreen Fashions Tragedy, Twelve Years Later

This Day in History (November 23): Prohibition, Pills, and RFK Jr.: A Century of Health Policy Gone Weird

This Day in History (November 22): The Day We All Learned That Protecting Presidents Is a Ridiculously Tough Gig

This Day In History (November 21): The 18½-Minute Gap, Presidential Accountability, and the Constitution’s True Power Dynamic

This Day in History (November 20): Nuremberg, Nazis, and the Problem With Ignoring Red Flags

This Day in History (November 19): Cape Cod and The Pilgrims’ First View of Freedom, and the Start of the Long Tradition of American...

This Day in History (November 18): The Day Congress Blew the Lid Off the Iran-Contra Affair

Today in History (November 17): Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom and Why We Still Haven’t Figured It Out

Today in History (November 16): Warsaw Ghetto Sealed – and Somehow, We’re Still Making the Same Mistakes

Today in History (November 15): America’s First Constitution… Kinda

This Day in History (November 14): The 1000 Dow and the Big Party Most of Us Were Never Invited To

This Day in History (November 13): The Day America Sat Up by Sitting Down

This Day in History (November 12): Ellis Island’s Farewell Tour (The Ghosts of McCarthyism and Trump’s Power Play)

This Day in History (November 11): The Armistice Day Hangover (What World War I Can Teach Us About Our Current Mess)

This Day in History (November 10): The Wilmington Massacre and Lessons Left Behind

This Day in History (November 9): The Berlin Wall (Lessons from 35 Years of Refusing to Bow to Oppression)

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