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On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...
When Father Damien de Veuster arrived at the Kalaupapa settlement on Molokai in May 1873, he found over eight hundred men, women, and children abandoned...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach took up his post as Thomaskantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The position was grueling — he was...
In late July 1941, after a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten to...
In March 1907, sanitary engineer George Soper confronted Mary Mallon at a Manhattan townhouse with an alarming claim: she was spreading typhoid fever to every...
In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune — the fifteenth of seventeen children born to former slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina — traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida,...
The schedule for the 1924 Paris Olympics arrived weeks before the Games, and Eric Liddell studied it carefully. The 100-meter heats were set for Sunday,...
Berlin, August 4, 1936. Jesse Owens stood at the edge of the long jump runway, the roar of one hundred thousand spectators pressing against him...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, a young physician named Crawford Long asked his patient James Venable to inhale deeply...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
On August 4, 1936, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, eighty thousand spectators watched as Jesse Owens struggled. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
In the spring of 1944, behind the concrete walls of the Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China, a gaunt Scottish missionary noticed a barefoot Chinese...
On the morning of July 6, 1924, the fastest sprinter in Scotland was nowhere near the starting blocks. Eric Liddell, the flying Scotsman favored to...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
On July 11, 1924, Eric Liddell stood in the starting blocks at Colombes Stadium in Paris — but not for the race anyone expected. The...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in London....
On the evening of February 23, 1807, the House of Commons erupted in something rarely heard within those walls — a standing ovation. Members of...
In the spring of 1924, Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Scotland and favored for Olympic gold in the 100 meters. But when the...
On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died on a thin mattress in Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. He was forty-three years old. A brain...
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...