🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Thursday, April 16. Today we're checking out the first battle that was officially recorded, the time Newton got knighted, the launch of the first stamp booklets, the trippy effects of LSD, the Cold War, Kendrick Lamar’s historic Pulitzer, and a ton more—quick and to the point!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1457 BC
Thutmose III's Egyptian forces defeated the Canaanite coalition at the Battle of Megiddo—the first reliably recorded battle.
-1705
Queen Anne of England knighted scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.
-1746
Culloden Battle: Duke of Cumberland defeats Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite army, ending the Jacobite Rising in Britain.
-1900
USPS issues its first stamp booklets containing 12 to 48 two-cent stamps.
-1943
Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
-1943
Bernard Baruch coined the term "Cold War" to describe U.S.-Soviet relations in a speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
-1948
Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) forms in Paris.
-2003
Ten new member states joined the European Union after signing the Treaty of Accession in Athens.
-2018
Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album, DAMN, the first rapper to win the award.
📸 Snapshot
Hitler's Window at the bombed-out remains of the Berghof residence, 1945
🗨️ Last Words
“I am ready—let there be no mistake and no delay.”