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After 27 Years in Prison, He Took the Oath. Then He Got to Work.

Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president on May 10, 1994, was one of the great political moments of the twentieth century — and the beginning of its hardest work.

May 10, 2026

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Two Scientists, Millions of Women, and the Pill That Changed Everything

On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved Enovid — the first oral contraceptive. Nothing about family life, medicine, or the relationship between men and women was quite the same afterward.

May 9, 2026

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The War in Europe Was Over. More Than One Million People Took to the Streets.

VE Day — May 8, 1945 — was the day six years of European slaughter ended. The celebration was real, the grief was real, and the world that emerged from it was entirely new.

May 8, 2026

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One Torpedo. Eighteen Minutes. 1,198 Dead.

The sinking of the Lusitania was not the event that brought America into the First World War. But it was the one that made the outcome inevitable.

May 7, 2026

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The Airship Was on Fire Before It Hit the Ground. The Age of the Zeppelin Died With It.

The Hindenburg disaster took 34 seconds, killed 36 people, and ended a vision of transatlantic air travel that had seemed like the future of civilization.

May 6, 2026

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The Man Who Remade Europe Died Alone on a Rock in the South Atlantic

Napoleon Bonaparte spent six years on Saint Helena, writing his memoirs, revising history, and managing his legend. He died on May 5, 1821. The legend survived him by centuries.

May 5, 2026

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Four Dead in Ohio — And the Shot That Ended the Sixties

The Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed students at Kent State University. The photograph taken moments later became the defining image of a generation's loss of faith.

May 4, 2026

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The Man Who Told Princes the Truth They Didn't Want to Hear

Niccolò Machiavelli was born 556 years ago and is still being misread. What he actually wrote was more unsettling than the caricature.

May 3, 2026

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The Man Who Saw Everything Died With Most of It Unfinished

Leonardo da Vinci left behind notebooks full of futures that wouldn't arrive for centuries. He also left behind the most famous painting in the world.

May 2, 2026

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The Bomb in the Square — And the Eight Men Who Died for an Idea

The Haymarket Affair of 1886 gave the world May Day, martyrs, and an enduring argument about whether justice was done.

May 1, 2026

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After 27 Years in Prison, He Took the Oath. Then He Got to Work.

Two Scientists, Millions of Women, and the Pill That Changed Everything

The War in Europe Was Over. More Than One Million People Took to the Streets.

One Torpedo. Eighteen Minutes. 1,198 Dead.

The Airship Was on Fire Before It Hit the Ground. The Age of the Zeppelin Died With It.

The Man Who Remade Europe Died Alone on a Rock in the South Atlantic

Four Dead in Ohio — And the Shot That Ended the Sixties

The Man Who Told Princes the Truth They Didn't Want to Hear

The Man Who Saw Everything Died With Most of It Unfinished

The Bomb in the Square — And the Eight Men Who Died for an Idea

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