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A large slab of dark grey stone covered in three bands of different scripts, displayed in a glass case.

A scholar announces that he can read Egyptian hieroglyphs

APK · 1822 · filed 27 September

APK / CC BY 4.0
A black and white photograph of a vast water-filled crater in front of the twisted steel skeleton of a factory.

A fertiliser store explodes and leaves a crater the size of a lake

BASF · 1921 · filed 21 September

BASF / CC BY-SA 3.0
A black and white portrait of a middle-aged man with a receding hairline and a full beard, wearing an open-necked white shirt, standing in front of a stone wall.

A novelist wins the Nobel Prize and dares not travel to collect it

Bert Verhoeff / Anefo · 1970 · filed 8 October

Bert Verhoeff / Anefo / CC0
A state procession along a flag-lined avenue, with guardsmen in red tunics and bearskins escorting a gun carriage.

A monarch's coffin is carried through the capital to lie in state

ChiralJon · 2022 · filed 14 September

ChiralJon / CC BY 2.0
A colour photograph of a huge flat-topped tower of fluted grey rock rising from a wooded hillside.

A president protects a landmark by inventing a new kind of protection

DXR · 1906 · filed 24 September

DXR / CC BY-SA 4.0
A night photograph of a waterfront building of white curved shells lit from within, reflected in dark harbour water with a city skyline behind.

A concert hall of white shells opens ten years late and fourteen times over budget

Diliff · 1973 · filed 20 October

Diliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
A long queue of ordinary people waiting on a British high street outside a branch with savings rates in the window.

Savers queue in the street in the first British bank run for 150 years

Dominic Alves · 2007 · filed 14 September

Dominic Alves / CC BY 2.0
A group of officers in field uniform leaning over a large map spread on a table, one pointing to a marked position, others watching closely.

Two armies attack across a canal and a plateau on the holiest day of the year

IDF Spokesperson's Unit · 1973 · filed 6 October

IDF Spokesperson's Unit / CC BY-SA 3.0
A man in shirtsleeves seated at the eyepiece of a huge telescope among girders and cables.

The astronomer who proved the universe is expanding dies at his desk

International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF · 1953 · filed 28 September

International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / CC BY 4.0
A photograph looking up the vast reddish trunk of a giant tree towards its distant crown.

A grove of the largest living things on Earth is made a national park

Jim Bahn · 1890 · filed 25 September

Jim Bahn / CC BY 2.0
A small black pocket radio standing upright, with a large gold tuning dial at the top and a panel of gold perforations below it.

The first pocket radio built on transistors instead of valves goes on sale

Joe Haupt · 1954 · filed 18 October

Joe Haupt / CC BY-SA 2.0
A young woman in a striped dress and handcuffs being led towards a van by two women in uniform jackets.

A kidnapped heiress who joined her kidnappers is finally arrested

John Malmin / Los Angeles Times · 1975 · filed 18 September

John Malmin / Los Angeles Times / CC BY 4.0
A brick and stone observatory building with white quoins and a small turret carrying a tall mast topped by a large red ball, photographed against a deep blue sky.

A conference picks one observatory to be the line all longitude is measured from

Julian Herzog · 1884 · filed 13 October

Julian Herzog / CC BY 4.0
A vast church interior seen from a balcony, with tiers of green-draped benches packed with clergy running down the nave beneath red hangings, chandeliers and a gilded canopy.

A council opens that will let Catholics hear mass in their own language

Lothar Wolleh · 1962 · filed 11 October

Lothar Wolleh / CC BY-SA 3.0
A lifelike museum model of a weathered bearded man in fur leggings and a leather belt, holding a long wooden bow.

Hikers find a 5,000 year old body melting out of a glacier

Mannivu · 1991 · filed 19 September

Mannivu / CC BY-SA 4.0
A false-colour astronomical image of an expanding shell of gas in pink, blue, green and gold against a dark field.

A new star appears in the sky and outshines every planet for three weeks

NASA / ESA / JHU / R. Sankrit and W. Blair · 1604 · filed 9 October

NASA / ESA / JHU / R. Sankrit and W. Blair
A false-colour satellite map of the southern polar region showing a large deep blue and purple area over Antarctica, ringed by green, surrounded by a grid of latitude and longitude lines.

Nations agree to phase out the chemicals eating a hole in the ozone layer

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · 1987 · filed 16 September

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY 2.0
A telescope image of a spiral galaxy with pink star-forming knots along its blue arms, a smaller yellow companion galaxy attached at the end of one arm.

A comet hunter logs a faint spiral smudge to stop himself mistaking it for a comet

NASA and the European Space Agency · 1773 · filed 13 October

NASA and the European Space Agency
A close-up of a medieval tomb effigy carved in dark mottled stone, showing a crowned and bearded king lying in state, with a patterned floor beyond.

A king dies of dysentery in a civil war he started by breaking his own charter

Philip Halling · 1216 · filed 19 October

Philip Halling / CC BY-SA 2.0
A black and white portrait of a tanned middle-aged man with slicked-back grey hair in a dark suit and tie, smiling slightly at the camera.

A former first lady marries a Greek shipping magnate and loses her halo

Pieter Jongerhuis / Anefo · 1968 · filed 20 October

Pieter Jongerhuis / Anefo / CC BY-SA 3.0 NL
A sepia photograph of officers and soldiers gathered outside a rough timber hut on a bare hillside, a woman in an apron among them and a horse being held on the right.

An empire declares war on its huge northern neighbour over a religious dispute

Roger Fenton · 1853 · filed 4 October

Roger Fenton
A stage photograph of a woman in a plain dress holding a crumpled paper, with a man in a light suit and straw hat singing behind her, in front of a tenement set with wooden stairs.

An opera set in a southern tenement courtyard opens on Broadway

Touring Club Italiano · 1935 · filed 10 October

Touring Club Italiano / CC BY-SA 4.0
A colour photograph of an industrial site with two concrete cooling towers venting steam, tall chimneys and a concrete reactor hall, with 1950s cars parked on a track in the foreground.

A queen opens the first nuclear station to sell power to a national grid

UK government · 1956 · filed 17 October

UK government / Open Government Licence v3.0

Public domain works

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27 Aug 1991 Pearl Jam release their debut album, Ten
27 Aug 2003 Mars swings closer to Earth than it has in 60,000 years
27 Aug 2015 Usain Bolt wins his fourth straight 200m world title
28 Aug 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech
28 Aug 1859 The most powerful geomagnetic storm ever recorded strikes Earth
28 Aug 1789 William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
28 Aug 1945 Branch Rickey tells Jackie Robinson he'll break baseball's color line
28 Aug 1833 The Slavery Abolition Act receives royal assent in Britain
29 Aug 1958 Michael Jackson is born
29 Aug 1831 Michael Faraday demonstrates electromagnetic induction
29 Aug 1885 Daimler and Maybach ride the first motorcycle
29 Aug 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction
29 Aug 1842 The Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War
30 Aug 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed to the Supreme Court
30 Aug 1937 Joe Louis defeats Tommy Farr in a 15-round decision
30 Aug 1914 Germany crushes the Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg
30 Aug 1983 Guion Bluford becomes the first African American in space
30 Aug 1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan to begin the occupation
31 Aug 1422 Henry V dies, leaving a nine-month-old baby as King of England
31 Aug 1888 Jack the Ripper claims the first of his canonical victims
31 Aug 1886 Charleston is wrecked by the worst earthquake the eastern United States has recorded
31 Aug 1803 Lewis sets off down the Ohio to begin the expedition west
31 Aug 1897 Edison patents the movie camera
1 Sep 1923 An earthquake and firestorm destroy Tokyo and Yokohama
1 Sep 1985 The wreck of the Titanic is found on the ocean floor
1 Sep 1972 Bobby Fischer becomes world chess champion, ending Soviet dominance
1 Sep 1870 Napoleon III is captured at Sedan with his whole army
1 Sep 1914 Martha, the last passenger pigeon alive, dies in Cincinnati Zoo
2 Sep 1945 Japan signs the surrender that formally ends the Second World War
2 Sep 1666 The Great Fire of London starts in a bakery on Pudding Lane
2 Sep 1864 Sherman captures Atlanta, helping secure Lincoln a second term
2 Sep -31 Octavian defeats Antony and Cleopatra at Actium
2 Sep 1789 The US Treasury is created, and Alexander Hamilton takes charge of it
3 Sep 1783 A treaty in Paris formally ends the American Revolutionary War
3 Sep 1658 Oliver Cromwell dies, and the English republic dies with him
3 Sep 1967 An entire country switches which side of the road it drives on
3 Sep 1976 A lander touches down on Mars and starts sending back pictures
3 Sep 1928 Fleming returns from holiday to find a mould has killed his bacteria
4 Sep 1886 Geronimo surrenders, ending the last major Native American armed resistance
4 Sep 1972 Mark Spitz wins a seventh gold medal at a single Olympics
4 Sep 1882 The first commercial central power station starts supplying electricity
4 Sep 1957 Nine Black students are blocked from entering an all-white high school
4 Sep 1888 A patent is granted for the camera that put photography in ordinary hands
5 Sep 1977 A probe launches that is still transmitting from interstellar space
5 Sep 1774 Delegates from twelve colonies meet to organise resistance to Britain
5 Sep 1698 A tsar returns from Europe and starts forcibly westernising his court
5 Sep 1882 The first Labor Day parade fills the streets of New York
5 Sep 1905 Theodore Roosevelt brokers peace between Russia and Japan
6 Sep 1901 McKinley is shot at point blank range at a public reception
6 Sep 1522 Elcano brings home the last ship of Magellan's fleet
6 Sep 1620 The Mayflower finally sails for America
6 Sep 1492 Columbus leaves the Canary Islands and sails west into open ocean
6 Sep 1781 Benedict Arnold burns a town in his own home state
7 Sep 1940 German bombers begin 57 consecutive nights of raids on a capital city
7 Sep 1533 A future queen is born, to her father's open disappointment
7 Sep 1822 A prince declares independence rather than return to Europe
7 Sep 1776 Bushnell's Turtle makes the first submarine attack in history
7 Sep 1936 The last known thylacine dies in a zoo enclosure
8 Sep 1941 A siege begins that will last nearly 900 days
8 Sep 1974 A new president pardons the one who resigned a month earlier
8 Sep 1943 Italy switches sides in the middle of the war
8 Sep 1504 Michelangelo's David is unveiled in the Piazza della Signoria
8 Sep 1900 A hurricane wipes out Galveston, the deadliest disaster the country has known
9 Sep 1976 The founder of the People's Republic of China dies
9 Sep 1543 A nine month old baby is crowned queen of Scotland
9 Sep 1776 Congress officially renames the colonies the United States
9 Sep 1791 Commissioners name the new federal capital after the sitting president
9 Sep 1892 Barnard spots Amalthea, the last moon found by eye alone
10 Sep 1846 A patent is granted for the lockstitch sewing machine
10 Sep 1939 Canada declares war on Germany, a week after Britain
10 Sep 1608 John Smith takes charge of a starving colony
10 Sep 1813 An American fleet captures an entire British squadron
10 Sep 1960 An Ethiopian runner wins the Olympic marathon barefoot
11 Sep 1297 A Scottish army destroys an English force at a river crossing
11 Sep 1893 A young monk introduces Hinduism to America in a single speech
11 Sep 1609 A Dutch ship enters the harbour of what will become New York
11 Sep 1922 The League of Nations confirms British rule over Palestine
11 Sep 1541 Santiago is attacked and burned months after Valdivia founds it
12 Sep 1940 Four teenagers following a dog find prehistoric paintings underground
12 Sep 1962 A president commits a nation to reaching the Moon within the decade
12 Sep 1683 The largest cavalry charge in history breaks a siege
12 Sep 1953 John Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier at Newport
12 Sep 1974 A military committee deposes an emperor after 44 years
13 Sep 1848 A railway worker survives an iron bar passing through his head
13 Sep 1993 A handshake on the White House lawn seals a peace framework
13 Sep 1759 Wolfe and Montcalm both die on the Plains of Abraham
13 Sep 1916 Roald Dahl, fighter pilot turned children's author, is born
13 Sep 1971 A four day prison uprising ends in the bloodiest assault of its kind
14 Sep 1812 An emperor enters a capital city and finds it burning
14 Sep 1814 A lawyer watching a bombardment writes the words to a national anthem
14 Sep 1901 The youngest person ever to hold the presidency is sworn in
15 Sep 1916 Tanks are used in battle for the first time
15 Sep 1835 A survey ship reaches the islands that will reshape biology
15 Sep 1978 A boxer wins the heavyweight title for a third time
15 Sep 1981 The first woman is confirmed to the United States Supreme Court
15 Sep 1830 The first intercity passenger railway opens, and kills a member of parliament
16 Sep 1810 A parish priest calls his congregation to revolt and starts a war of independence
16 Sep 1893 A hundred thousand people race on horseback to claim free land
16 Sep 1920 A cart packed with explosives kills dozens in a financial district
16 Sep 1974 A president offers conditional amnesty to those who dodged the draft
17 Sep 1787 Thirty-nine delegates sign a constitution that is still in force
17 Sep 1862 The bloodiest single day in American history
17 Sep 1908 A passenger becomes the first person killed in an aeroplane crash
17 Sep 1849 A woman escapes slavery and returns, again and again, to free others
17 Sep 1978 Two old enemies sign a peace framework after thirteen days at a country retreat
18 Sep 324 An emperor defeats his last rival and rules Rome alone
18 Sep 1961 The head of the United Nations dies in a plane crash on a peace mission
18 Sep 1970 A guitarist dies in London at twenty-seven
18 Sep 1873 A bank failure sets off a panic that shuts the stock exchange for ten days
19 Sep 1783 A sheep, a duck and a rooster become the first air passengers
19 Sep 1881 A president dies eleven weeks after being shot
19 Sep 1893 A country becomes the first in the world to let women vote
19 Sep 1985 An earthquake flattens the centre of a capital city
20 Sep 1519 Five ships set out to sail all the way round the world
20 Sep 1870 Artillery breaches an ancient city wall and ends the pope's rule over it
20 Sep 1911 A warship rams the world's largest liner and tears open its hull
20 Sep 1962 A governor personally blocks a student from enrolling at a university
20 Sep 1973 A woman beats a former champion in a match watched by 90 million people
21 Sep 1942 The most expensive weapon of the war makes its first flight
21 Sep 1938 A hurricane arrives without warning and kills hundreds in New England
21 Sep 1904 A chief who led his people on a 1,100 mile flight dies in exile
21 Sep 1780 A celebrated general is exposed as a traitor and flees to the enemy
22 Sep 1914 One submarine sinks three warships in a single hour
22 Sep 1927 A knocked-down champion is saved by a referee who will not start counting
22 Sep 1961 A president signs a law sending young volunteers to work abroad
22 Sep 1862 A president warns that in a hundred days he will free the enemy's slaves
22 Sep 1791 A bookbinder's apprentice is born who will work out how to generate electricity
23 Sep 1779 A sinking captain is asked to surrender and refuses
23 Sep 1952 A candidate saves his career on television by talking about his dog
23 Sep 1846 A planet is found by mathematics before anyone looks for it
23 Sep 1938 A metal cylinder is buried with instructions not to open it for 5,000 years
23 Sep 1913 A pilot crosses the Mediterranean alone with barely any fuel to spare
24 Sep 1960 The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier takes to the water
24 Sep 1929 A pilot takes off, flies and lands without ever seeing outside
24 Sep 1852 A steam engine is carried aloft and an aircraft is steered for the first time
24 Sep 1789 A single act of Congress creates a country's entire court system
25 Sep 1962 A heavyweight title changes hands in two minutes and six seconds
25 Sep 1513 An explorer wades into an ocean no European had seen and claims all of it
25 Sep 1911 A battleship blows up at anchor in its own harbour
25 Sep 1690 A newspaper prints its first issue and is shut down four days later
26 Sep 1960 Two candidates debate on television for the first time
26 Sep 1687 A shell hits a powder store and blows the roof off a 2,000 year old temple
26 Sep 1580 A privateer returns after three years, having gone round the world
26 Sep 1918 The largest battle in American history begins
26 Sep 1905 A patent clerk publishes a paper that rewrites space and time
27 Sep 1908 A car goes on sale that an ordinary worker can afford
27 Sep 1941 The first of a fleet of 2,700 emergency cargo ships is launched
27 Sep 1964 A commission publishes its report on a president's assassination
27 Sep 1590 A pope dies twelve days after his election, before he is even crowned
28 Sep 1066 An invasion fleet lands unopposed on the English coast
28 Sep 1781 An allied army digs in around a port and traps an army that cannot be evacuated
28 Sep 1889 A metal cylinder in a vault becomes the definition of the kilogram
28 Sep 1924 Two aircraft land after flying all the way round the world
29 Sep 1988 A shuttle flies again, two and a half years after one exploded
29 Sep 1399 A king signs away his own crown while a prisoner in the Tower
29 Sep 1913 The inventor of an engine vanishes overboard on a night crossing
29 Sep 1916 A share price rise makes someone the world's first billionaire
29 Sep 1902 A novelist who took on his own government dies of fumes from a blocked chimney
30 Sep 1927 A batter hits his sixtieth home run of the season
30 Sep 1935 The tallest dam in the world is dedicated, two years ahead of schedule
30 Sep 1949 The last flight lands, ending fifteen months of feeding a city by air
30 Sep 1938 A prime minister comes home from a summit promising peace
30 Sep 1791 An opera written for a suburban theatre opens, and its composer has weeks to live
1 Oct 1903 Two rival leagues meet for a championship series for the first time
1 Oct 1890 A valley of granite cliffs and waterfalls is made a national park
1 Oct 1946 A tribunal reads out its verdicts on the leaders of a defeated regime
1 Oct 1949 A leader stands on a city gate and declares a new republic founded
1 Oct 1918 An officer in local dress enters a captured desert capital ahead of the main army
2 Oct 1187 A sultan takes a holy city back after eighty-eight years of crusader rule
2 Oct 1925 An inventor transmits the first moving image of a human face
2 Oct 1950 A comic strip about a group of small children appears in seven newspapers
2 Oct 1959 A weekly anthology of strange stories begins on television
2 Oct 1780 A British officer is hanged as a spy after a general's treason is exposed
3 Oct 1955 A daily children's variety show starts on television with a cast of child performers
3 Oct 1990 Two countries divided for forty-one years become one again
3 Oct 1226 A friar who gave away his inheritance dies in the hut he asked to be carried to
3 Oct 1863 A president fixes a national day of thanksgiving in the middle of a civil war
3 Oct 1935 An empire invades one of the last independent countries in Africa
4 Oct 1957 A polished metal sphere becomes the first object put into orbit
4 Oct 1927 Carving begins on four presidents' faces in a granite mountainside
4 Oct 1582 A calendar reform ends the year with ten days that never happened
4 Oct 1777 A dawn attack on an occupying army fails in thick fog and gunsmoke
5 Oct 1789 Thousands of women march out of a capital to fetch the king back from his palace
5 Oct 1930 An airship on its maiden voyage to India comes down on a French hillside
5 Oct 1936 Two hundred unemployed shipyard men set off to walk to the capital
5 Oct 1877 A chief surrenders forty miles from the border after a fighting retreat of 1,100 miles
5 Oct 1908 A prince declares his country fully independent and takes the title of tsar
6 Oct 1889 A dance hall with a fake windmill on the roof opens in a hillside district
6 Oct 1961 A president tells families to build shelters against nuclear fallout
6 Oct 1981 A president is shot dead by his own soldiers during a military parade
6 Oct 1892 A poet laureate dies after forty-two years in the post
7 Oct 1571 Two fleets of oared galleys meet in the last great battle fought under oars
7 Oct 1959 A probe sends back the first pictures of the side of the Moon nobody had seen
7 Oct 1913 A car factory starts moving the work past the men instead of the other way round
7 Oct 1777 An invading army is broken in a second battle and surrenders ten days later
7 Oct 1849 A writer dies days after being found delirious in another man's clothes
8 Oct 1871 A fire in a barn spreads until it has burned out the centre of a great city
8 Oct 1871 A forest fire wipes out a lumber town and kills more people than any fire since
8 Oct 1967 A revolutionary is captured in a ravine after his guerrilla campaign collapses
8 Oct 1918 A conscientious objector turned corporal captures 132 men almost single-handed
9 Oct 1934 A king is shot in the back of an open car on a state visit to an ally
9 Oct 1919 A championship series ends in a result eight of the losing players had sold
9 Oct 1936 A dam in a desert canyon begins sending power to a city 260 miles away
9 Oct 1888 A monument that stood half built for twenty-two years finally opens to the public
10 Oct 1913 A president in another country presses a button and two oceans meet
10 Oct 1973 A vice president resigns and pleads no contest to a tax charge the same afternoon
10 Oct 1911 An army mutiny in a river city brings down a dynasty within months
10 Oct 1813 A composer of twenty-six operas is born in a village inn
11 Oct 1968 Three astronauts fly the first crewed mission of a programme aiming at the Moon
11 Oct 1986 Two leaders nearly agree to abolish all their nuclear weapons, then walk away
11 Oct 1521 A pope awards a king a grand title for a book attacking the reformers
11 Oct 1727 A king is crowned to a new anthem that every coronation since has used
12 Oct 1492 A crew that nearly mutinied a week earlier sights land at two in the morning
12 Oct 1933 An army prison on an island is handed over to be a maximum security jail
12 Oct 1928 A machine that breathes for a paralysed patient is used for the first time
12 Oct 1870 A defeated general dies as a college president, five years after surrendering
12 Oct 1915 A nurse is shot by a firing squad for helping soldiers escape an occupied country
13 Oct 1307 A king has every member of a wealthy military order arrested in one dawn sweep
13 Oct 1860 A photographer goes up in a tethered balloon and takes the first aerial picture in America
13 Oct 1775 A congress votes to fit out two armed ships and founds a navy by accident
14 Oct 1066 A king is killed and a duke wins a kingdom in a single day's fighting
14 Oct 1926 A book of stories about a boy's stuffed bear is published
14 Oct 1947 A pilot with two broken ribs flies faster than sound and tells almost nobody
14 Oct 1964 A minister of 35 becomes the youngest person yet to win the Nobel Peace Prize
14 Oct 1912 A candidate is shot on his way to a rally and gives the speech anyway
15 Oct 1815 A defeated emperor arrives at the island where he will spend the rest of his life
15 Oct 1917 An exotic dancer is shot as a double agent on thin evidence
15 Oct 1951 A sitcom starts that will invent the rerun and be filmed in front of an audience
15 Oct 1966 Two college students found a party that will patrol the police with law books and guns
15 Oct 1844 A philosopher is born who will spend his last eleven years insane
16 Oct 1793 A queen is driven through the streets in an open cart and beheaded
16 Oct 1968 Two medallists raise gloved fists on the podium and are sent home
16 Oct 1846 A dentist puts a patient to sleep with a vapour and surgery stops being torture
16 Oct 1978 A Polish cardinal is elected pope, the first non-Italian in 455 years
16 Oct 1859 An abolitionist seizes an arsenal hoping to arm a slave revolt
17 Oct 1973 Oil producers cut output and quadruple the price within months
17 Oct 1931 A gang boss the police could never touch is convicted of tax evasion
17 Oct 1907 A wireless service opens that lets the public send messages across an ocean
17 Oct 1849 A composer who wrote almost only for the piano dies at 39
18 Oct 1851 A novel about a captain hunting a white whale is published and flops
18 Oct 1931 An inventor holding over a thousand patents dies at 84
18 Oct 1867 A territory the size of a subcontinent changes hands for two cents an acre
18 Oct 1898 An island changes flags and its people spend a century arguing about status
19 Oct 1469 Two cousins marry in secret and join two kingdoms into one country
19 Oct 1864 A general gallops twenty miles to a battle his army is losing and turns it around
19 Oct 1943 A soil bacterium yields the first drug that can cure tuberculosis
19 Oct 1745 A satirist who proposed eating babies to fix poverty dies in Dublin
20 Oct 1944 A general wades ashore to keep a promise he made two years earlier
20 Oct 1827 Three fleets destroy a fourth in the last great battle fought under sail
20 Oct 1740 A woman of 23 inherits a throne and half of Europe attacks her for it