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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Thursday, March 26. Today we're checking out the Paris Commune, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book, the end of the Heaven's Gate cult, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and a bunch of other interesting stuff — all quick, to the point, and clean on sources.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1027
Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor, marking the start of the Salian dynasty.
-1812
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake devastates 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, killing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people.
-1871
Elections in Paris bring revolutionaries to power who form the Paris Commune government.
-1909
Russian forces invade northern Persia to support Mohammad Ali Shah's coup and relieve the siege of Tabriz.
-1920
This Side of Paradise was published, immediately making 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald famous and wealthy.
-1953
Dr. Jonas Salk announces a successful polio vaccine, and clinical trials begin the next year.
-1955
Georgia Gibbs scores a hit with “Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower),” igniting a controversial trend called “whitewashing” in the music industry.
-1966
Massive anti-Vietnam War protests take place across the U.S., including in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
-1971
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared Bangladesh (East Pakistan) independent from Pakistan.
-1979
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a peace agreement at the White House, ending 30 years of hostilities.
-1997
39 members of the "Heaven's Gate" cult were found dead in a mass suicide at a Rancho Santa Fe mansion, following an anonymous tip.
-2024
Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after a container ship collided, crippling the port for nearly three months.
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📸 Snapshot
Discovering Zoomorph B (Monument 2), the south face, dated 780 AD, 1883
🗨️ Last Words
“Build me a hut to die in. I am going home.”