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2015, December
9482 In 1942 a Finnish sound engineer secretly recor...
3031 Why is present day Japan still not allowed to h...
2535 New DNA research shows Ireland’s early popula...
2449 A gruesome history of cosmetic dentistry: False...
2507 The fascinating history of how Jefferson and ot...
2211 The Winter War was a war that was fought by the...
2158 Qur'an found in England could date from the ver...
2047 Sellswords and mercenary companies often show u...
1957 Suleiman the Magnificent's tomb believed to hav...
1886 Paleobotanists find 2.5 million year old fossil...
2015, November
9898 61% of Americans in 1939 did not want the US go...
5111 A trunk of 2600 undelivered letters from the se...
4876 Secret pagan basilica in Rome emerges from the ...
4088 Would it be possible to create a YouTube list/c...
3706 Harvard digitizes 150,000 images of diaries, jo...
3084 New York City workers unearth 200 year old buri...
3459 The Day Israel Attacked the USS Liberty
2985 Evidence grows for a hidden chamber in Tutankha...
2710 1922: The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — i...
2584 Here’s How Artists in the Late 1800s Imagined...
2015, October
9964 Does it ever fascinate you that the ancient wor...
4629 What America’s immigrants looked like when th...
4539 A 103-year-old cracker from the Titanic just so...
4173 Scans suggest Queen Nefertiti may lie concealed...
3544 A Victorian era audio recording of a dinner par...
3435 48 million year old horse remains found in Germany
2724 NASA satellite photography reveals colossal ear...
2686 'Colossus of Rhodes Project' to Revive One of A...
2649 New photo of Billy the Kid with his gang
2523 High Hitler: Hitler's drug habit wilder than wi...
2015, September
5060 Today I found out my grandmother, almost 96, fo...
3432 An Incredibly Detailed Map of the Roman Empire ...
2287 Hoover Dam build photos reveal the wonder of hu...
2203 Life in an American concentration camp, photogr...
2119 Archaeologists unearth massive new sections of ...
2045 Queen Elizabeth II is about to become Britain's...
2036 Videogames based on history should teach us abo...
1939 Who in your opinion has the most epic/badass on...
1840 Were the Romans self-aware of their decline?
1795 Research shows Aboriginal memories stretch back...
2015, August
6304 Today, for the first time ever, The New Yorker ...
4916 Divers find $4.5 million worth of Spanish gold ...
3582 Col. Seidule, head of the History Department at...
3318 Japan revisionists deny WW2 sex slave atrocities
2615 I handled some 200+ year old American newspaper...
2539 My name is Indy Neidell, author and host of THE...
2470 Mysterious World War 2 photographs I found in m...
2201 How is the Hiroshima atomic bomb taught in your...
2186 This is the Rock band Eluveitie singing Omnos- ...
2055 Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies Fr...
2015, July
8768 Largest pyramid in Mexico has been found; bigge...
5376 Archaeologists digging in central Reykjavik loo...
3147 The tallest man in history was too huge for wor...
2356 Archaeologists Unearth Four of the Men Believed...
2225 America's last surviving Founding Father was a ...
2183 A video shows how countries and territories hav...
2084 Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the ...
1916 Pirate Ships operated as true democracies
1753 Churchill’s wartime tunnels under white cliff...
1728 The history of British slave ownership has been...
2015, June
8508 Today, 71 years ago, 150,000 soldiers stressful...
4664 45 years ago today, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hit...
2139 800 years ago today the Magna Carta was sealed
1999 ‘Commando’ archaeologists to rescue threate...
1990 Long-forgotten documents on Japan's attempt to ...
1685 The elevator that brought killer animals to the...
1596 The fall of France 75 years ago is conventional...
1549 Five huge Bronze Age axes have been found in a ...
1536 A collection of six ancient Egyptian tombs from...
1474 North and South Korea collaborate in excavating...
2015, May
4374 Today, in 1776, Rhode Island was the first to d...
4154 What is the funniest event in history?
2467 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Blueprint for Ar...
1861 The Real Red Dawn. Polish High school students ...
1842 The Perfectly Preserved World War I Trench
1755 My Grandfather, 94 year old WWII Canadian RCAF ...
1703 Pres. Franklin Pierce wanted to make an example...
1655 I spent 2 years researching a forgotten 19th ce...
1613 Pirate Capt Kidd's 'treasure' found in Madagascar
1552 Over 5,500 men of color — free and slave — ...
2015, April
3836 Last of the ‘Navajo Code Talkers’ has died ...
3582 Man digs under house and finds 5,000-year-old u...
2513 There is a 1919 French film called J'accuse. In...
2306 Dachau concentration camp was liberated on this...
2163 Linguists of reddit- How far back in history co...
2164 The Civilian Conservation Corps is responsible ...
1932 Freedom Tower Elevators display historically ac...
1824 Did a Nazi bomb fall on your house? This map wi...
1601 Researchers uncork and sample 170-year-old bott...
1592 Albert Einstein Died 60 Years Ago This Month. T...
2015, March
5535 The Ides of March: Julius Caesar was assassinat...
3163 3 years before the liberation of Auschwitz The ...
2574 Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair ...
2464 Mud 'preserved 2,600-year-old brain'
2384 A book that helped Henry VIII to build his case...
2154 50 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. lead...
2142 A bison kill carried out 2,500 years ago in sou...
2010 8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every ...
1798 Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 y...
1669 350 years ago today, the first scientific journ...
2015, February
5073 Plane carrying Chile soccer stars found, 50 yea...
3106 Fifty years ago today, the red-and-white Maple ...
2646 "Magic" was widely acknowledged in the old worl...
2467 The 1st Special Service Force marched up a moun...
2383 "Hitler Tamed By Prison" - The New York Times, ...
1825 George RR Martin once said "No matter how much ...
1693 An intact Roman tombstone dating between the fi...
1636 You can just tell skateboarding was the coolest...
1627 2 Renaissance sculptures of a nude man riding a...
1585 We recognised my Great-Grandfather in a Holocau...
2015, January
4577 Australia's deadliest sniper: "We weren't a lot...
4119 This woman survived a gas chamber, three Nazi c...
2716 In 1904 a mandatory vaccination act in Brazil p...
2345 Archaeologists discover Mythical Tomb of Osiris...
2325 Italian police find looted art & antiquities, w...
2086 96 Years ago today, Boston was flooded with Mol...
2067 15 intimate snapshots of the Romanov family, sh...
2031 Letter home by U.S. soldier from Landsberg Conc...
1931 It's Zimmerman telegram day! On this date in 19...
1853 Painted Red Numbers Found on Colosseum’s Wall...