Week Nineteen
November 23 – President John F Kennedy (1) November 24 – On This Day (37) – Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species November 25 – President John F Kennedy (2) November 26 – On This Day (38) – Entering Tutankhamun’s tomb November 27 – The death of JFK November 28 – Poem (19) -…
Week Eighteen
November 9 – David Lean November 10 – On This Day (35) – The fall of the Berlin Wall November 11 – Stanley Kubrick November 12 – On This Day (36) – Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Writers’ Union November 13 – Terrence Malick November 14 – Poem (18) – All Nature Has A Feeling…
Week Seventeen
October 19 – Robin Hood October 20 – On This Day (33) – Tolkien finishes The Lord of the Rings October 21 – On This Day (34) – The Battle of Trafalgar October 22 – George Washington October 23 – Emmeline Pankhurst October 24 – Poem (17) – How Do I Love Thee October 25…
Week Sixteen
September 28 – John Maynard Keynes September 29 – On This Day (31) – Victory at Salamis September 30 – Milton Friedman October 1 – On This Day (32) – Gorbachev becomes Head of State October 2 – Daniel Kahneman October 3 – Poem (16) – Psalm 23 October 4 – Story (16) – The…
Week Fifteen
September 14 – Alec Guinness September 15 – On This Day (29) – Charging the Chicago Eight September 16 – Groucho Marx September 17 – On This Day (30) – The signing of the American Constitution September 18 – Peter Sellers September 19 – Poem (15) – The Naming of Cats September 20 – Story…
Week Fourteen
August 31 – Queen Victoria September 1 – On This Day (27) – The start and end of World War II September 2 – Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky September 3 – On This Day (28) – Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar September 4 – Sherlock Holmes September 5 – Poem (14) – The Charge…
Week Thirteen
August 10 – William Shakespeare (1) August 11 – On This Day (25) – The creation of the Weimar Republic August 12 – William Shakespeare (2) August 13 – On This Day (26) – The fall of the Aztec Empire August 14 – George Orwell August 15 – Poem (13) – Shall I compare thee…
Week Twelve
July 20 – Three Great Prime Ministers July 21 – On This Day (23) – Man walks on the Moon July 22 – Three Great Thinkers July 23 – On This Day (24) – The founding of the Chinese Communist Party July 24 – Three Great Composers July 25 – Poem (12) – On Westminster…
Week Eleven
July 13 – Mahatma Gandhi July 14 – On this day (21) – The fall of the Bastille July 15 – Martin Luther King July 16 – On this day (22) – The first explosion of an atomic bomb July 17 – Nelson Mandela July 18 – Poem (11) – The Soldier July 19 -…
Week Ten
June 22 – Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci June 23 – On This Day (19) – Burgess and Maclean Defect June 24 – Ferdinand Magellan and Francis Drake June 25 – On This Day (20) – Custer’s Last Stand June 26 – Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton June 27 – Poem (10) – Lullaby June…
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