Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 1616: The Pope banned Polish astronomer Copernicus’s book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres because it suggested that earth moved around the sun. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1770: The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers opened fire on a group of protesters, killing five people. (Sources: This Day in History calendar, ISBN 978-1-7282-8404-0 and DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1946: Winston Churchill gave his Fulton Speech, likening the spread of Soviet influence to an “Iron Curtain.” (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1953: Joseph Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 2004: Amnesty International launches its campaign to stop violence against women. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down Number 2 by James Fell, ISBN 978-1-989351-82-6)
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