On This Day
Canada’s 1939 declaration of war, Elias Howe’s 1846 sewing-machine patent, and CERN’s 2008 first beam show how prepared ideas cross into public reality.
A nation chooses its name, prisoners make a closed institution visible, and Elvis turns a television performance into a national event.
A marble giant, a city under siege, and a starship on television show how September 8 made different worlds visible.
A public reception, a grocery aisle, and a Prague theater show how large systems can change through one visible scene.
Three September 5 scenes: the First Continental Congress, Voyager 1's launch, and the Munich Olympic attack.
Three September 4 scenes: the founding of Los Angeles, the Kodak camera patent, and the Little Rock school crisis.
Three September 3 turning points: Frederick Douglass's escape, the Treaty of Paris, and Viking 2's landing on Mars.
A solo English documentary episode about the Great Fire of London, Japan's formal surrender, and Vietnam's declaration of independence on September 2.
A solo English documentary episode about the invasion of Poland, the Carrington Event, and the discovery of the Titanic on September 1.
A solo English documentary episode about the Gdansk Agreement, the first solar-powered car, and The Threepenny Opera on August 31.
A solo English documentary episode about three August 30 thresholds: the first test message on the Washington–Moscow hotline in 1963, the Senate's confirmation of Thurgood Marshall in 1967, and Guion Bluford's 1983 Challenger launch as the first African American launched into space.
Three August 29 scenes follow a treaty that redrew trade and territory, Faraday's iron-ring experiment, and The Beatles' final proper concert.
