| (1841) Poe publishes world’s first detective story
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A story concerning two grisly murders committed in a windowless room, and featuring a large ape-like creature wielding a razor, Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ will inspire the creation of future fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. . |
| (1902) Madame and Monsieur Curie isolate radioactive radium
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| The married scientific research team of Marie and Pierre Curie chemically isolate one-tenth gram of pure radium chloride, an element not naturally occurring in isolation. Their work with radium and radioactivity will lead to the first Nobel Prize awarded to a woman.. |
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| (1939) Billie Holiday records landmark civil rights song
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One of the first songs to explicitly call out the murderous brutality suffered by African Americans in the Jim Crow South, the painful and poetic ‘Strange Fruit’ is recorded by Billie Holiday. A relatively small jazz label, Commodore, records it after Holiday’s label, Columbia Records, refuses to.. |
| (1999) Columbine High School shooting shocks a nation
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| Two students enter a Colorado high school armed with semi-automatic handguns, carbine rifles, and explosives, and begin a massacre that leaves 13 people dead and 21 wounded. The incident will be one of the deadliest modern-day mass shootings. . |
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