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  1. Feb 2024
    1. The man who solved the problem was an American chemist, who alsocontributed to the Dictionary, Thomas Sterry Hunt. In 1857, he had beenteaching at Laval University in Quebec and responded to an appeal by thePresident of the Montreal City Bank who was battling counterfeit notes. Huntcreated a special green ink, using chromium sesquioxide, that was pretty wellindestructible. Numerous experiments showed that you couldn’t remove itfrom the banknote without destroying the paper itself – until one chemistsucceeded in doing so, and the Canadians dropped Hunt’s invention. But theAmericans took it up, especially on the back of their banknotes, hence thecolloquial term ‘greenbacks’ for US dollar bills, which was given its own entryin the OED in 1900 and defined as ‘the popular name for one of the legal-tender notes of the U.S., first issued in 1862 and so called from the devicesprinted in green ink on the back’, alongside something rather topical at thetime but now archaic, Greenback Party, defined as ‘a party in U.S. politics,which advocated that “greenbacks” should be made the sole currency of thecountry’, and its various derivatives Greenbacker and Greenbackism.
  2. Jan 2024
    1. On May 19, 2016, 66 passengers and crew flying from Cairo to Paris on EgyptAir flight 804 disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea.

      i think this is really cool because it was on my 9th birthday!

    1. On November 10, 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street,” with its memorable theme song (“Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street”), went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.

      On November 10th 1969 a show that I would once watch many years later was created. This date is significant to me because I was born on November 10th and so was Sesame Street.

    1. U.S. space probe, Mariner, visits Mercury

      NASA was landing on the Mercury almost fifty years before I was born. Also 1974 was the year my mom was born.

  3. Sep 2023
    1. On February 14, around the year A.D. 270, Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, is said to have been executed.

      On my birthday, it is said that Emperor Claudius II was executed... fun stuff.

    1. On July 24, 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at the ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations.

      Congratulations on being a aunt on this day,

    1. On July 10, the Monkey Trial got underway, and within a few days hordes of spectators and reporters had descended on Dayton as preachers set up revival tents along the city’s main street to keep the faithful stirred up. Inside the Rhea County Courthouse, the defense suffered early setbacks when Judge John Raulston ruled against their attempt to prove the law unconstitutional and then refused to end his practice of opening each day’s proceeding with prayer.

      This is my birthday date just many years before I was born.

  4. Jul 2023
    1. The Stars and Stripes flies in battle for the first time

      This is my birthday and with independence day passing I thought it fit for my patriotic addition to our extra credit assignment. The Revolutionary War, which has a whole lot to do with the course of American History.

  5. Jan 2023
    1. Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christmas carols.

      I choose this date because my Dad was born on Christmas so every year we celebrate them together.

    1. On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

      I was born 25 years later on this day exact.

    1. On December 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid inscribed with "Laus Deo," meaning praise (be) to God, atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake and the nation’s first president, George Washington. 

      I was born on this day about 200 years later!

  6. Sep 2022
    1. On September 18, 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government.

      I was born on September 18th

    1. Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

      Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence is without a doubt one of the most important dates in American History. This is not the reason this date is important to me. Herbie Hancock, one of the greatest jazz musicians to ever live, released his first album Takin' Off. This album helped me through a long freshman year, and is a large part of my life.

    1. On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end.

      This is my birthday,I remember this day because my whole life ive been to Gettysburg almost every single year its got a special place in my heart Gettysburg GIFs | Tenor

    1. On March 1, 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh and  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who became an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son’s empty room. The kidnapper used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and left muddy footprints in the room.

      I selected March 1st, as my meaningful day because it is my birthday.

    1. December 7, 1941 the Pearl Harbor was bombed at 7:55 a.m Hawaii time. Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese aircraft, 360 warplanes where following the U.S naval base Pearl Harbor which caused WW2. December 7th is a very special day is because thats when my grandmother was born. she is my angle on earth.

    1. On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

      This is my birthday!!!!!!

    1. On February 22, 1732, George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington.

      This certain date is important to me because February 22 is also my birthday, back in February of our current year on the 22 was known world wide as "two's Day" it also happened to land on a Tuesday. On Tuesday 02/22/2022 I turned 22!!

    1. On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.

      This is my birthday 9 years later.

    1. In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor

      This is the date of my birthday, 232 years before I was born.

    1. Other acts featured Houdini being hung from a skyscraper in a straitjacket, or bound and buried—without a coffin—under six feet of dirt.

      So Samhain or more commonly Halloween is my favorite holiday. It actually is officially November first, but traditionally is celebrated on October 31. It is a very important holiday to me but also when some very important things happened to me.

      On a more morbid note, I found it very interesting that world renown, Houdini, who had escaped death countless times, even escaping from a literal grave, succumbed to death on this day. Its significance is that this is considered a time when the year itself is dying as daylight rapidly becomes less and less as winter approaches.

    1. On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize

      This date is my birthday. My birthday only came a few years after this day, October 11, 2005.

    1. On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history

      This is the day that we had to put our family dog down.

    1. On July 8, 1776, a 2,000-pound copper-and-tin bell now known as the “Liberty Bell” rings out from the tower of the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, summoning citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.

      This is the date of my birthday. it is wild to think I was born exactly 230 year after the Liberty bell rang to signal the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence!![]

    1. On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be one of the biggest in history.

      This is my birthday one year later.

  7. Aug 2022
    1. On March 1, 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh and  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who became an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son’s empty room.

      This date march 1 is important to me because it is my mothers birthday.

    1. On January 19, 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

      January 19th is my birthday, and as it turns out, also is Edgar Allen Poes!

    1. On August 23, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted.

      This date is important to me because I was born almost 60 years later. RIP to Sacco and Vanzetti.

  8. May 2022
    1. On September 20, 1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis

      This is my birthday and its only 2 years before I was born

    1. Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll on June 11, 1963.

      This is the day I got married on .

    1. On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno stage the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana

      This is my birthday, not a very good day in the US :(

    1. In a ceremony held in Baghdad on December 15, 2011, the war that began in 2003 with the American-led invasion of Iraq officially comes to an end. Though today was the official end date of the Iraq War, violence continued and in fact worsened over the subsequent years.

      This date is the date of my great grandmother's birthday. She passed when I was a year and a half old but my family says that in her last year when she was very sick she always smiled when she got to see and hold me and it made her day.

  9. Jan 2022
    1. On September 18, 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government.
    1. On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades

      This day is special to me because when I was in middle school I took a trip to Atlanta with my sisters, mom, and aunt. I was very happy and had the best time ever.

    1. The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space, on July 29, 1958.

      This day is very important to me almost 64 years later.

    1. May 14

      I chose this date because it is my dad's birthday. He is very important to me, so of course his birthday would be as well.

    1. On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.

      On this date of 7/15 I was born!!

    1. After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.

      This was the same Month and Day as my Birthdate (No, not the year)

    1. On November 5, 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In just over a month's time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Malaya (now known as Malaysia), the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines.
    1. On August 24, after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands.

      This date is important to me because this is the day I was born. It was pretty cool to see what happened on my birthday thousands of years ago

    2. On August 24, after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities, buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud, were never rebuilt and largely forgotten in the course of history.

      This is my wife birthday so it was nice to be able to look back in history and see what occurred on her birthday so many years ago.

    1. Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales—affectionately known as "the People’s Princess"—dies in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. Her boyfriend, the Egyptian-born socialite Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the car, Henri Paul, died as well. 
    1. On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general.

      On this day about 250 years later I was born.

  10. Aug 2021
    1. On December 20, 1957, while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly purchased Tennessee mansion, rock-and-roll star Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for the United States Army.

      It is my girlfriend's birthday and it is the same week as Christmas.

    1. On April 27, 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler

      This is an important date because I was born on April 27th!

    1. On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney and his brother Roy found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, California.

      This is my birthday date 79 years earlier. 🎁

    1. the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.

      April 6th is my birthday and also the same day the United States entered World War I in 1917.

    1. On January 2, 1980, in a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to Moscow. These actions sent a message that the age of detente and the friendlier diplomatic and economic relations that were established between the United States and Soviet Union during President Richard Nixon’s administration (1969-74) had ended.

      This was the day I got to see and talk to my father for the first time since I was born. For me it marked the first time he really cared about me and started having a part in my life.

  11. Jun 2021
    1. On June 16, 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. Known as a switchback railway, it was the brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson, traveled approximately six miles per hour and cost a nickel to ride

      I got the chance to play at ECU for my high school's basketball team on June 16 but 133 years later.

  12. May 2021
    1. Four years after the United States won its independence from England, 55 state delegates, including George Washington, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin, convene in Philadelphia to compose a new U.S. constitution.

      The creation of a U.S. constitution on my birthday.

  13. Feb 2021
    1. On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and further galvanized the anti-war movement. 

      This date is important to me because it is my birthday. It is also star wars day as well. Which I am very fond of

    1. On January 18, 1919, in Paris, France, some of the most powerful people in the world meet to begin the long, complicated negotiations that would officially mark the end of the First World War.

      This is my birthday as I've recently turned 18y/o. Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

    1. the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.

      This event happen on the same date of my birth just 168 years before.

    1. One of the worst oil spills in U.S. territory begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water. Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and wind and currents spread the oil more than 100 miles from its source, eventually polluting more than 700 miles of coastline. Hundreds of thousands of birds and animals were adversely affected by the environmental disaster.

      I chose March 24th, my birthday, because I don't have many significant dates. This spill happened 15 years before I was born.

    1. Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter.”

      This was me and my twin birth date. This event happened over 800 years ago

    1. On October 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s.

      October 17th is my Papa's birthday, He was born in the early 40's. Al Capone was sentenced 9 years before my papa was born.

  14. Jan 2021
    1. On June 16, 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.

      On June 16 I was born and on June 16,1884 the very first roller coaster was opened.

    1. On September 26, 1957, West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.

      I love musical theater and the story line for West Side Story. I think it is so cool that the opening day on Broadway was the same day i was born just about 46 years later.

    1. On September 19, 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7-kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375-square-mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas.

      This is my bithday about 50 years later.

    1. On January 6

      On Dia de Los Reyes Magos we celebrate with a "Rosca de Reyes", which means Kings Cake. A rosca is a wreath cake decorated with dried candied fruit, symbolizing a crown and has small baby figures inside symbolizing Jesus. Those who find a baby in their slice of cake will have to host a party on February 2nd. February 2nd was when Jesus is presented at the Temple.

    2. On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph,

      On January 6, my family and I celebrate Dia de Los Reyes Magos. Dia de Los Reyes Magos is a holiday celebrated to honor the day Jesus received gifts from the Three Wise Men.

    1. On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general.

      On this day 230 years later my parents got married and have been for almost 16 years.

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    1. In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws

      Me and my twin brother were born on this day, 45 years later :)

    1. On March 10, 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces.

      On March 10th the Tibetans came to together in revolt on the same day that I was born about 62 years before. This is why it is an important date to me!

    1. In Egypt, the Society of Free Officers seizes control of the government in a military coup d’etat staged by Colonel Gamal Abdal Nasser’s Free Officers. King Farouk, whose rule had been criticized for its corruption and failures in the first Arab-Israeli war, was forced to abdicate and relinquish power to General Muhammad Naguib, the figurehead leader of the coup.

      This date is important to me because my family is originally from Egypt, and this date marked the day Egypt claimed their independence from the British.

  15. Oct 2020
    1. a police car’s lights flashing over the unmoving van. The doors are open, and the too-familiar statues stand either side of the well-worn wooden box.

      Daisy from Hard Shoulder

    2. The dark building is newer, but he knows it well; knows the two lost souls who creep through it with an alert hunger on their faces. He recognizes that look from the other hunter, whose dreams he has watched for so long. They stalk the darkness itself, and hope to catch and kill it before it can do the same to them. They see him watching, but they cannot catch his scent.

      Julia and Trevor

  16. Dec 2019
    1. the “very poetry of nature.

      Victor quotes Leigh Hunt's poem "The Story of Rimini," published in 1816--a poem Victor could not, of course, have known in the novel's fictional time frame that ends in summer 1799. Like the passage from Percy Shelley's "Mutability," this line from Hunt's poem belongs to the novel's extra-diagetic address to readers of 1818 rather than to canons of novelistic realism. Clerval is once again made an avatar of the Romantic poet that by 1818 had become solidly esconced in the British cultural imaginary.

  17. Aug 2017