#OnThisDayInHistory, news reaches London that the Declaration of Independence had been drafted in 1776. "They did what, now?"

#OnThisDayInHistory, flight attendant Steven Slater got on the PA, cussed, then quit his job by exiting via the plane's escape slide in 2010. "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

#OnThisDayInHistory, the Graf Zeppelin takes off from Lakehurst, NJ, to complete its first around-the-world flight in 1929. It returns three weeks later, having set a global circumnavigation record. Speedy little thing, ain't it?

#OnThisDayInHistory, Alice Ramsey and three friends finish the first all-female cross-country trip, taking 59 days to cross the US, in 1909. Road trip!!

#OnThisDayInHistory, the New York Times publishes a front-page obituary for the fictional character Hercule Poirot, whom Agatha Christie planned to kill in her next book, in 1975. 'E's not dead yet! 'E'd like to go for a walk!

#OnThisDayInHIstory, the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" premieres in the New York Daily News in 1924. Not bad for a kid with no pupils!

„Alles, was die Menschen in Bewegung setzt, muss durch ihren Kopf hindurch; aber welche Gestalt es in diesem Kopf annimmt, hängt sehr von den Umständen ab.“ — Ohne Engels, heute am 5. August 1895 in London gestorben, hätte es Marx so nicht gegeben.
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Engels als Theoretiker entdecken: https://dietzberlin.de/herrn-eugen-duehrings-umwaelzung-der-wissenschaft-engels-anti-duehring
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Engels als Ferienbegleiter: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/friedrich-engels-oder-wie-ein-cotton-lord-den-marxismus-erfand-2

#OnThisDayinHistory, according to recent biographers, Louis Armstrong is born in New Orleans in 1901. Not July 4th, as Armstrong always believed. Well, that's awkward.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the USS Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the North Pole in 1958. You'll never see Santa from down there!!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Albert Einstein writes a letter to FDR explaining the uranium could be used to make extremely powerful bombs in 1939. He later calls the letter the "one great mistake" of his life. Oopsie!

#OnThisDayInHistory, MTV launches in 1981. It's initially only available in New Jersey. I want my MTV.....

#OnThisDayInHistory, Marilyn Monroe signs her first movie contract with 20th Century Fox in 1946. She gets $150 a week. She appears in, among others, "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" That classic.

#OnThisDayInHistory, George Clinton takes office as the first elected governor of New York in 1777. Um, not that George Clinton.

#OnThisDayInHistory, JRR Tolkein's "The Fellowship of the Ring" is published in 1954. And the story still wasn't over!

#OnThisDayInHistory, two men at a Washington state park stumble over the skull of what would later be named "Kennewick Man," one of the oldest skeletons in North America, in 1996. Most I ever found at a state park was a sand dollar.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the House begins impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon in 1974. Hey, remember when impeachment was a Thing?

#OnThisDayInHistory, the US Postal Service is established with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general in 1775. He didn't go postal or anything!

#OnThisDayInHistory, the New York subway fare jumps to 15 cents in 1953. At the same time, the city issues tokens to keep passengers from having to fish out 3 nickels every time. How thoughtful of them!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu in Peru in 1911. Whoa nelly, check that out!

#OnThisDayInHIstory, Guns N' Roses' single "Sweet Child O' Mine" enters the Billboard Top 40 in 1988. And on Slash's birthday, no less! Where do we go now?