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On This Day: History Detective

Dated events, each with a question to investigate. Each page is a real date in history and one detective question: who wrote it, when, and why. Great for classrooms and curious kids.

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1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

Detective question: Five handwritten copies exist, and they differ. Which is 'the' speech?

1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded

Detective question: Why December 10? Check Alfred Nobel's life.

1773: The Boston Tea Party

Detective question: Who were the participants, and why did they disguise themselves?

Everything inside

  1. 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
  2. 1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded
  3. 1773: The Boston Tea Party
  4. 1903: The Wright brothers make the first powered, controlled flight…
  5. 2007: Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone in San Francisco
  6. 1759: The British Museum opens to the public in London
  7. 1809: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin are born on the same day
  8. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call: "Mr
  9. 44 BC: Julius Caesar is assassinated in Rome on the Ides of March…
  10. 1889: The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris
  11. 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
  12. 1912: The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic
  13. 1906: An earthquake and fires devastate San Francisco
  14. 1954: Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
  15. 1869: The golden spike completes the first US transcontinental…
  16. 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Everest
  17. 1944: D-Day: Allied forces land in Normandy
  18. 1215: King John seals Magna Carta at Runnymede
  19. 1815: The Battle of Waterloo ends Napoleon's rule
  20. 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo
  21. 1867: Canadian Confederation creates the Dominion of Canada
  22. 1776: The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
  23. 1789: Crowds storm the Bastille in Paris
  24. 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
  25. AD 79: The traditional date of Mount Vesuvius' eruption, which…
  26. 1963: Martin Luther King Jr
  27. 1939: Germany invades Poland and the Second World War begins in Europe
  28. 1666: The Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane
  29. 1787: The US Constitution is signed in Philadelphia
  30. 1928: Alexander Fleming notices mould killing bacteria, the start…
  31. 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial…
  32. 1492: Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean
  33. 1066: The Battle of Hastings
  34. 1517: Martin Luther's 95 Theses (traditional date for the start of…
  35. 1922: Howard Carter finds the steps to Tutankhamun's tomb
  36. 1989: The Berlin Wall opens after a garbled press announcement
  37. 1918: The Armistice ends fighting in the First World War at 11am

Where this comes from

The book is drawn from PastRush, a free iPhone app. If you like the format, the app has more.

PastRush: History DetectiveFree on the App Store for iPhone
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