| 1540 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard; Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England. | |
| 1615 | French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World. | |
| 1794 | Robespierre is beheaded in France. | |
| 1808 | Sultan Mustafa of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne. | |
| 1835 | King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt. | |
| 1863 | Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General George Meade‘s Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1868 | The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted. | |
| 1898 | Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States. | |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I. | |
| 1920 | Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government. | |
| 1932 | The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C. | |
| 1941 | A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam). | |
| 1945 | A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam. | |
| 1988 | Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first time in 21 years. | |
| 1990 | A fire at an electrical substation causes a blackout in Chicago. Some 40,000 people were without power for up to three days. | |
| 1996 | Discovery of remains of a prehistoric man near Kennewick, Washington, casts doubts on accepted beliefs of when, how and where the Americas were populated. | |
| 2005 | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland. | |
| 2005 | Britain experiences its most costly tornado to date, causing 40 million Sterling Pounds of damage to Birmingham in just four minutes. There were no fatalities. |
“I sent several rolls to LIFE in New York, but they wired back, ‘Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?” – Ed Clark.
One actual person wrote “ENJOYS BUSINESS-CLASS TRAVEL” as a descriptor, which I think is one of the purest things I have ever read. And the further you get into the weeds of the personals, the more frenzied the synonyms get, because everyone is concerned with making ABSOLUTELY SURE that you are picking up what they are putting down, but they are also (belatedly and barely) concerned about seeming judgmental or close-minded, so they try to speak in the world’s most breakable code.What follows is a list of examples (that we suspect are enhanced composites) at The Toast. Yes, a year after the site ceased publication, The Toast is back, sadly, for one day only.
And then there are those that are inaccurate and we really don't know why. Read about eleven such markers at Atlas Obscura.In the early 1990s the people of Lithuania got very excited when calculations identified a spot outside the capital city, Vilnius, as the dead center of Europe. A big sculpture park dubbed Europos Park was erected at the spot. But French scientists who had proposed the spot for the center in the first place sent news that they accidentally missed the exact target by 8 miles (14 kilometers). The correct center, which is still contested, is now marked with a square and a small museum.
