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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This day in history American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is b...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This day in history A deputation of Muslim leaders led by the Aga Khan III met Indian viceroy Lord Minto to secure greater political representation, eventually leading to the founding of the All-India Muslim League. The Simla Deputation was a gathering of 35 prominent Indian Muslim leaders led ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This day in history Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This day in history Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City. Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein. It is one of the best-known works of pop art, and among...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This day in history Lij Iyasu (pictured), the emperor-designate of Ethiopia, was deposed in favor of his aunt Zewditu. Lij Iyasu also known as Iyasu V was the designated Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 to 1916. His baptismal name was Kifle Yaqob. Ethiopian emperors traditionally chose their regna...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This day in history Stephen of Blois's army approached Oxford, beginning the siege of Oxford. Stephen, often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This day in history The United Mine Workers of America began a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, sparking the Colorado Coalfield War. The United Mine Workers of America is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union als...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This day in history Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich. Das Rheingold, WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelung...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This day in history Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot. The Mongol Khan is a modern Mongolian play and a reproduction of the 1998 tragedy Tamgagui T...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This day in history An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld. On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations (UN) crashed near Ndola...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This day in history Following Louis I's death without a male heir, his daughter Mary was crowned with the title of "King" of Hungary. Louis I of Hungary, also known as Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This day in history British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved. In 1978, a smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom led to the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer. ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This day in history Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States. al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearhe...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This day in history The paddle steamer Lady Elgin (pictured) was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives. A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. Earlier ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This day in history First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory. The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kin...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This day in history A fire that killed 186 people broke out at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, England. On 5 September 1887, a fire broke out in the backstage area of the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England, during the production of The Romany Rye. The fire caused panic throughout the theatre, with 186...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This day in history First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the Kowloon Peninsula. The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empir...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This day in history The mass expulsion of Soviet Germans from the Volga German ASSR began. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, ethnic Germans living in the Soviet Union were subject to mass deportation starting from August 1941 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet dictato...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This day in history U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force. Theodore Roo...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This day in history At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it". The 1967 Arab League summit was held on August 29 in Khartoum as the fourth Arab League Summ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This day in history Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pict...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This day in history King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child. James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until hi...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This day in history France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The Treaty of Picquigny was a peace treaty negotiated on 29 August 1475 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. It foll...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This day in history With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus (pictured). Frederick William Herschel was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This day in history The Troubles: the IRA ambushed and killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, and assassinated Lord Mountbatten on his boat at Mullaghmore. The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This day in history The Coatzacoalcos earthquake struck near the Mexican state of Veracruz, killing 25 people. The 1959 Coatzacoalcos earthquake occurred at 02:25 local time on August 26 near the Mexican state of Veracruz. The earthquake measured 6.4 Mw at a depth of 21 km (13 mi), and had a ma...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This day in history American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This day in history World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victory. World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between tw...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This day in history Natascha Kampusch (pictured), who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn after more than eight years in captivity. Natascha Maria Kampusch is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This day in history American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured). The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or Amer...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This day in history Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington. Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This day in history American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one. Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He deter...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This day in history Scanian War: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad. The Scanian War was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was fought from 1675 to 1679 mainly on Scanian soil, in the former Danish–Norwegian...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This day in history In the United Kingdom, the Blind Persons Act received royal assent. The Blind Persons Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, since repealed. It provided a pension allowance for blind persons aged between 50 and 70, directed local authorities to make pro...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This day in history Jawaharlal Nehru (pictured) took office as the first prime minister of India, a post he held for 16 years. Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This day in history The Act on National Flag and Anthem was adopted, formally establishing the Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" as the Japanese national flag and anthem, respectively. The Act on National Flag and Anthem , abbreviated as 国旗国歌法, is a law that formally established Japan's national flag an...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This day in history An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Smyth Report is the common name of an administrative history written by the...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This day in history The region of Dacia, comprising parts of modern Romania, became a province of the Roman Empire. Year 106 (CVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Civica. The denomination 106 ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This day in history From measurements of its motion, German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, had an unseen companion. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronom...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This day in history Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. (15:53 UTC), nine people died when a tour Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter and a small private Piper PA-32R airpla...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This day in history The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the security interests of Turkey's fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the Turkish Straits crisis. The Turkish Straits are two internationally significan...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This day in history A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft crashed while attempting to land in Dhaka, killing 49 people in the deadliest aviation accident in Bangladeshi history. Biman Bangladesh Airlines, commonly known as Biman, is the flag carrier of Bangladesh. With its main hub at Hazrat Sha...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This day in history In Brooklyn, a mob composed largely of Irish Americans attacked a group of African Americans in a riot. Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, is the most populous of the five boroughs and counties in New York City, United States. Located at the westernmost end of Long Isl...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This day in history Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty. Krishna Lal Adhikari was a Nepali author best known for publishing Makaiko Kheti (1920)...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This day in history Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia. The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the auto...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This day in history At the height of a political crisis known as the royal question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a strike in Grâce-Berleur. The royal question was a major political crisis in Belgium that lasted from 1945 to 1951, coming to a head between March and ...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This day in history Arab–Byzantine wars: Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, was sacked by Saracen raiders. The Arab–Byzantine wars or Muslim–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between the successive Islamic caliphates and the Byzantine Emp...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This day in history In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard. Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight departing from Karachi en route to Islamabad. On 28 July 2010, the...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This day in history First Jacobite rising: Scottish and Irish Jacobites defeated Williamite forces at Killiecrankie, Scotland. The Jacobite rising of 1689, c. March 1689 to February 1692, took place primarily in the Scottish Highlands. Its purpose was to restore James VII to the throne, followi...

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History Of Old @historyofold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This day in history Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 people on board. Asiana Airlines Flight 733 was a domestic Asiana Airlines passenger flight from Seoul-Gimpo International Airport to...

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