Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 1868: Alaska Packard Davison, the FBI’s first female special agent, was born. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1872: Yellowstone National Park became the world’s first national park. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1896: French scientist Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1896: An Ethiopian army defeated a smaller force of Italian invaders in the first battle of the Italo-Ethiopian War. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1917: The Zimmermann Telegram was published. (Source: This Day in History calendar, ISBN 978-1-7282-8404-0)
- 1927: Singer/actor/political activist Harry Belafonte was born to Jamaican parents in Harlem. (Source: Black History for Every Day of the Year by Yinka and Kemi Olusoga, ISBN 979-8-89303-093-8)
- 1932: Charles Lindbergh’s son was kidnapped. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 1954: The U.S. tested the hydrogen bomb on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
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