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They Meant to Build the Tallest Bell Tower in Europe. They Built the Most Famous Mistake.

Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9, 1173. It started to tilt before the third floor was finished, and it has been falling over, very slowly, ever since.

Aug 9, 2026

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The Only President to Quit Told the Country on Live Television

On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced he would resign the presidency the next day. Watergate had finally caught up with him, and no American president had ever done such a thing.

Aug 8, 2026

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Two Embassies, Two Cities, One Coordinated Morning of Terror

On August 7, 1998, near-simultaneous truck bombs destroyed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing hundreds. The attacks announced a new kind of global terrorism to the world.

Aug 7, 2026

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At 8:15 in the Morning, One Bomb Ended One Era and Began Another

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Tens of thousands died in an instant, and the world entered the nuclear age it has never left.

Aug 6, 2026

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The Most Famous Woman in the World Died Alone With a Telephone in Her Hand

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home in the early hours of August 5, 1962. She was thirty-six. Her death was ruled a probable suicide, and the questions have never stopped.

Aug 5, 2026

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The Diary Kept Going After the Bookcase Swung Open

On August 4, 1944, after 761 days in hiding, Anne Frank and seven others were discovered in their Amsterdam annex and arrested. Her diary survived. She did not.

Aug 4, 2026

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Three Small Ships Left a Spanish Port and the World Was Never the Same

Columbus set sail from Palos on August 3, 1492, in search of a western route to Asia. He found instead two continents whose peoples he had not imagined, and the collision reshaped the planet.

Aug 3, 2026

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One Small Country, One Night, and the Road to the Gulf War

Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, overrunning it in hours. The occupation triggered the largest military coalition since the Second World War and reshaped the modern Middle East.

Aug 2, 2026

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The Day Music Learned to Look Back at You

MTV went on the air on August 1, 1981, with a countdown, a rocket, and a song about how video killed the radio star. Within a few years it had rebuilt the entire music industry around the screen.

Aug 1, 2026

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The First American Patent Was Signed by George Washington. It Was for Making Potash.

The first US patent was granted on July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont. It was personally signed by the President, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State. The system has since granted over twelve million patents.

Jul 31, 2026

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Archive

They Meant to Build the Tallest Bell Tower in Europe. They Built the Most Famous Mistake.

The Only President to Quit Told the Country on Live Television

Two Embassies, Two Cities, One Coordinated Morning of Terror

At 8:15 in the Morning, One Bomb Ended One Era and Began Another

The Most Famous Woman in the World Died Alone With a Telephone in Her Hand

The Diary Kept Going After the Bookcase Swung Open

Three Small Ships Left a Spanish Port and the World Was Never the Same

One Small Country, One Night, and the Road to the Gulf War

The Day Music Learned to Look Back at You

The First American Patent Was Signed by George Washington. It Was for Making Potash.

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