It is Voltaire’s death anniversary. Voltaire died in his 84th year in Paris in 1778, 33 days before Jean-Jacques Rousseau died in Geneva.
Insurgent History Calendar
The Insurgent History Calendar: March 13
Clarence Darrow, the lawyer who defended murderers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, Eugene Debs, and John Scopes in the Monkey trial, died on this day in 1938.
The Insurgent History Calendar: May 1
Daylight Saving Time, “that puzzling ritual of mass clock-winding ill befitting freeborn Americans,” as Bill Kauffman described it in a 2005 Wall Street Journal review of Spring Forward, Michael Downing’s book on that pointless, aggravating, jet-lagging ritual, was first imposed on this day in 1916fuel-conserving measure during World War I, which the United States had […]
The Insurgent History Calendar: March 12
Mustafa Kamal Aataturk, the man who modernized and secularized Turkey, led the Turkish revolution after World War I and played a significant role in the Armenian genocide, was born on this day in 1881.
The Insurgent History Calendar: February 13
The firebombing of undefended Dresden in 1945, one of the great war crimes of World War II, and Kurt Vonnegut’s memories.