Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 241 BCE: The First Punic War ended with the Battle of Aegusa. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1535: Tomes de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama, discovered the Galapagos Islands. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1762: Jean Calas died a horrendous death because of religious intolerance. Voltaire sought–and received–some modicum of justice in his honor. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 1876: Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call when he used the device he invented to summon his assistant Thomas Watson. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1913: Harriet Tubman passed away. (Source: Black History for Every Day of the Year by Yinka and Kemi Olusoga, ISBN 979-8-89303-093-8)
- 1949: “Axis Sally”–real name Mildred Gillars–was found guilty of treason, the first woman to be convicted of treason in the U.S. (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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