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On This Day in 1909: Alice Ramsey Drove into History Without Looking Back
A 22-year-old mother rewrote the map of American possibility, mile by brutal mile
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Eddie Gibbs
On This Day in 1991, How Tim Berners Lee's First Website Changed Everything
A quiet click at CERN set the stage for a global revolution and offers enduring lessons for today’s digital creators and entrepreneurs.
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Eddie Gibbs
On This Day: When Students Became Executioners in Mao’s China
The murder of teacher Bian Zhongyun on 5 August 1966 was not a tragic outburst, but a state-sanctioned betrayal that turned children into killers.
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Eddie Gibbs
On This Day 1944, The Capture of Anne Frank Exposed More Than a Hiding Place
Eighty-one years ago today, a knock behind a bookshelf revealed the true cost of silence and complicity
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Eddie Gibbs
On This Day 1492: The Voyage That Tilted the World
How three ships, a flawed navigator, and a royal gamble changed the map forever.
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day 1990: The spark that lit the Gulf War
When Saddam’s tanks rolled into Kuwait, the world changed overnight. This is the story of how one invasion shaped the modern Middle East and defined a…
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day 1981: When the Music Met the Screen - MTV Changes the World
How a television channel turned music into a visual phenomenon and shaped a generation
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Greig Hopcroft

July 2025

On This Day 1975: The Vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa
The Power, the People and the Mystery That Won’t Go Away
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day 1965: J.K. Rowling Turns 60
From Single Mum to Global Phenomenon, Through Magic and Controversy
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day, 1966: England's Glory Sealed at Wembley
How Alf Ramsay’s gamble and Bobby Moore’s poise delivered a once in a lifetime triumph for the home of football
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day: A Crown, a Rocket, and the Eyes of the World
From royal vows to the stars above, two moments that made the world stop and look up
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Greig Hopcroft
On This Day: Peter Rabbit and the First World War
28th July marks the birth of Beatrix Potter and the outbreak of World War I, two vastly different events forever linked by a single date in history
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Greig Hopcroft
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