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365History @365history.bsky.social · 4d

On this day in 1605, Guy Fawkes was caught guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords. The plan was simple. Blow up Parliament. Kill the king.

The plot failed. Fawkes was tortured and executed. Britain still celebrates his failure with bonfires and fireworks.
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365History @365history.bsky.social · 5d

November 4, 1922
Howard Carter cracks open the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun one of the few royal tombs found intact.

Inside: over 5,000 artifacts, solid gold coffins, and the story that made “the mummy’s curse” famous.

Archaeology hasn’t been this dramatic since.
#365History #KingTut #OnThisDay

365History @365history.bsky.social · 13d

October 27, 312: Constantine “sees” a glowing cross before battle, wins the next day, and Christianity becomes Rome’s new brand.
Miracle or political marketing?

#365History #ThisDayInHistory #Constantine #RomanEmpire #History

365History @365history.bsky.social · 24d

Oct 16, 1859 — John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry.
Wanted to arm enslaved people, spark rebellion, and end slavery by force.
Was he a hero? A terrorist? A madman?
Robert E. Lee stopped him.
America’s still arguing about him.

#JohnBrown #HarpersFerry #OnThisDay #USHistory #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Oct 10

Oct 10, 732: Charles Martel defeats the Umayyad army at the Battle of Tours, halting Muslim expansion into Western Europe.
A turning point in shaping European religion, power, and identity for centuries.

#OTD #BattleOfTours #CharlesMartel #History #365History #WorldHistory

365History @365history.bsky.social · Oct 2

October 2, 1919: Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke and the White House hides it. His wife secretly runs the country. A racist, a hypocrite, and one of America’s worst presidents—broken in body and in legacy.

#365History #ThisDayInHistory #USHistory

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 23

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish year 5786The Hebrew calendar is lunar-solar and has been tracking time for millennia long before the Julian or Gregorian calendars. It’s a moment to reflect, reset, and recognize a tradition that has endured across centuries of diaspora and resilience

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 20

September 20, 1881
Chester A. Arthur becomes president making three U.S. presidents in one year. Garfield got shot in July, then died 80 days later… from infection. Not the bullet. The doctors didn’t wash their hands.
Yes, really.

#ThisDayInHistory #365History #USHistory #PresidentialFacts

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sept 16, 1920: A horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite exploded on Wall Street.
38 dead. 140+ injured.
No arrests. No accountability.
Still one of the deadliest terror attacks in US history.
#365History #WallStreetBombing #OnThisDay #USHistory #Historybluesky

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sept 10, 1919: NYC throws a massive parade for WWI vets. Ticker tape. Cheers. Grief. Relief. The “war to end all wars” was over but no one knew it was just the prequel. #WWI #History #OnThisDay #365History #NYC

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sept 9, 1945: Mike the Headless Chicken gets decapitated in Fruita, CO… and lives 18 more months.
Traveled the country. Made his owner rich. Died choking in a motel.
History is wild.

#ThisDayInHistory #MikeTheHeadlessChicken #365History #OddHistory #HistoryNerd

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 8

This Day in History September 8
From Roman conquest to Michelangelo’s David, the birth of St. Augustine, and the brutal Siege of Leningrad September 8 has seen it all. Empires rose, art was unveiled, and cities were born or destroyed.
#ThisDayInHistory #HistoryShorts #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 6

6 September, 1901 President McKinley is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He dies days later, and a young Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. The Bull Moose is about to charge.
#OTD #TeddyRoosevelt #USHistory #PresidentialFacts #HistoryNerds #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today in History – 476 CE:
Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after Odoacer invades.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire begins.
The Rome Bros? Activated.

#365History #RomanEmpire #FallOfRome #TodayInHistory #HistoryNerds

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sept 3, 1783
The American Revolution officially ends with the Treaty of Paris.
The British Empire the most powerful military on earth finally recognized the United States as independent.
July 4 gets the fireworks, but this is the day we were born on paper.
#365History #TDiH

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
On September 2, 1901, Teddy Roosevelt dropped one of the most legendary foreign policy lines ever at the Minnesota State Fair. It wasn’t just tough talk it was the blueprint for American power projection in the 20thC

#ThisDayInHistory #365History

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 29

Aug 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast.
Mississippi was flattened. New Orleans drowned.
The storm hit but it was the levees that failed. And the government? Slower than the floodwaters.
If you remember it, you lived history.
#HurricaneKatrina #ThisDayInHistory #365History

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 28

Aug 28, 1955: Emmett Till is lynched at 14.
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, demanded an open casket funeral.
The photo of her mutilated son helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
This is not ancient history. Emmett would’ve been 84 today.
#EmmettTill #ThisDayInHistory #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 26

On this day in 1346, England’s longbows broke the French knights at the Battle of Crécy.

Outnumbered and out-armored, the English used terrain, tactics, and tech (yes, early cannons) to change warfare forever.

Crécy ended the myth of knightly invincibility.

#BattleOfCrecy #OnThisDay #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 23

August 23, 1305 — William Wallace is executed for treason.
Dragged through London. Hanged. Disemboweled. Beheaded. Quartered.
Not a myth. Not Mel Gibson.
A real knight who led real resistance against English rule.

#OnThisDay #WilliamWallace #Braveheart #ScottishHistory #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 20

480 BCE. 7,000 Greeks held off up to 300,000 Persians at Thermopylae.
They weren’t trying to win.
They were trying to buy time and make a point.
Leonidas and 300 Spartans died holding the line.
And history never forgot.

#Thermopylae #Leonidas #Sparta #OnThisDay #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 19

A wooden warship. Cannonballs bounced off it.
August 19, 1812 the USS Constitution earns the name “Old Ironsides.”
Not iron. Just American oak and grit.
Still afloat in Boston. @ussconstitution.bsky.social

#OnThisDay #OldIronsides #USNavy #WarOf1812 #365History

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 13

August 13, 1521: The Aztec Empire falls.
Cortés didn’t conquer alone he had help from Indigenous groups who hated Aztec rule. No good guys here. Just power, fear, and betrayal.

#OnThisDay #HistoryNerds #Cortes #Aztecs #Conquest #365History #TDiH

365History @365history.bsky.social · Aug 6

August 6, 1945
The U.S. gave Japan the gift of a second sun.
70,000 people died instantly.
The atomic age was born.
Today, some would call the blast a disproportionate response.
#365History #Hiroshima #ThisDayInHistory #AtomicAge

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365History @365history.bsky.social · Jul 30

Forget Jaws this real WWII story is worse. July 30, 1945: USS Indianapolis is torpedoed after delivering the atomic bomb. 880 sailors stranded. Sharks circled for days. Only 316 survived. Should this be as famous as Jaws or is it too terrifying? #TDiH #wwii #365history