RJ Hamster
🗳️ 240 Years. Then the First Woman Accepted the…
Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.
■ TODAY’S LEAD STORYHillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on July 28, 2016 — the first woman in 240 years of American presidential history to stand at that podium.READ FULL STORY →
■ ALSO ON THIS DAYA military plane struck the Empire State Building in 1945, killing fourteen — and one elevator operator survived a fall that no one should have survived.READ MORE →
■ MORE FROM HISTORYA baby born into Hamptons privilege in 1929 grew up to become the most famous First Lady in American history — and remained more private than anyone around her ever understood.READ MORE →
■ DID YOU KNOW?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid was built around 2560 BCE; Cleopatra died in 30 BCE; the Moon landing was 1969 CE. She was separated from the pyramid by about 2,500 years, and from Armstrong’s first step by about 2,000.
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