Every day, I am listing a few important dates from world history with scant details–but a list of sources.
- 1567: The Battle of Oosterweel began the Eighty Years’ War. (Source: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell, ISBN 978-0-593-72408-8)
- 1781: Herschel Williams is credited with discovering Uranus. (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)
- 1848: As revolution spread across Europe in an era known as “the springtime of the peoples,” the government of Austria forced the unpopular chancellor, Prince Metternich, to resign. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1954: The KGB was founded as the security agency for the Soviet Union. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 1988: The Seikan Tunnel opened, connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. (Source: DK’s On This Day: A History of the World in 366 Days, ISBN 978-0-7440-2917-8)
- 2020: African-American medical worker Breonna Taylor was shot six times and killed in her home by plainclothes police officers carrying out a “no-knock” search warrant. (Source: Black History for Every Day of the Year by Yinka and Kemi Olusoga, ISBN 979-8-89303-093-8)
I’m including a video to an NBC Investigates video from five years ago after Breonna Taylor was killed.
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