Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 1789: The U.S. Constitution went into effect. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1795: Fedon’s Revolution, an uprising against British rule in Grenada, began. (Source: Black History for Every Day of the Year by Yinka and Kemi Olusoga, ISBN 979-8-89303-093-8)
- 1804: The Castle Hill Rebellion began in Australia. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down Number 2 by James Fell, ISBN 978-1-989351-82-6)
- 1918: The first recorded cases of Spanish flu were found at the U.S. Army base Fort Riley. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1943: The Battle of Fardykambos began. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 2014: Italy allotted two million euros to preserve Pompeii after heavy rains caused walls there to crumble. (Source: This Day in History calendar, ISBN 978-1-7282-8404-0)
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