Today in history, all week
- The Dawn Raid on NagazakichoThe arrest of Richard Sorge in Tokyo on October 18, 1941
When Japanese police knocked on an Azabu villa at dawn on October eighteenth, nineteen forty-one, they seized Adolf Hitler's favorite journalist in Tokyo.
- The Deluge at the Horse Shoe BreweryThe London Beer Flood of October 17, 1814
When an enormous fermentation vat ruptured in central London in eighteen fourteen, over a million pints of dark porter tore through the slums of Saint Giles.
- The Cobbler in the Captain CoatThe Captain of Köpenick heist on October 16, 1906
On a crisp autumn afternoon in nineteen hundred and six, an aging ex-convict in a secondhand Prussian uniform commandeered a squad of soldiers and seized an entire town…
- The Dictation on Rue Saint-DominiqueThe arrest of Alfred Dreyfus on October 15, 1894
When an innocent artillery captain reported for a routine inspection in Paris, military intelligence had already prepared a loaded revolver and a trap.
- A Bullet for the Bull MooseThe assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912
When an assassin shot Theodore Roosevelt at point-blank range in Milwaukee, the former president refused a stretcher and ordered his driver to the auditorium.
- Dawn of the Iron KingThe mass arrest of the Knights Templar on October 13, 1307
At dawn on a Friday in October 1307, royal officers smashed through the doors of every Templar preceptory in France.
- The Blade on the StageThe assassination of Inejiro Asanuma on October 12, 1960
On an autumn afternoon in nineteen sixty, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy charged across a live television broadcast with an antique samurai dagger.
From the community
- Seven Laps Around the SpinaChariot racing in ancient Rome
A driver from Roman Iberia won more prize money than perhaps any athlete in history, and a single race could tip an empire into flames.
- The Peril of Swiping SweetsTaking candy from a baby idiom
- Six Weeks in BeijingTiananmen Square protests (1989)
