/r/onthisday
This reddit is both to show off your awesome trivial knowledge and to learn something new, quirky, or interesting about the day you're currently living! Who knows, maybe you can use it at trivia night tonight.
A few posting rules:
Please include the date at the front of the submission. Preferably using a format like:
[July 4, 1776] or [7/4/1776]
Nothing personal. While you are certainly exceptional, this is not a place to post about your reddit cakeday, actual birthday, relative's passing, wedding anniversary, or the day you found your lucky penny.
Only post about things related to the current date. If you find something else interesting you want to share with reddit, there's the always popular /r/TIL, the less frequented /r/trivia, or subject specific subreddits.
Link to a source!
If its NSFW, it needs to be marked as such.
/r/onthisday
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OTD | October 31, 1908: Canadian pacifist, feminist, and social community activist, Muriel H. Duckworth, was born.
04:39 UTC
OTD | October 28, 1599: Marie Guyart or St. Marie of the Incarnation was born.
01:36 UTC
OTD | October 27, 1401: Catherine de Valois, Queen consort of England was born.
05:42 UTC
OTD | October 26, 1892: American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells, published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
00:55 UTC
OTD | October 25, 1900: Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women’s rights activist, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was born.
03:03 UTC
OTD | October 21, 1854: English social reformer and nurse, Florence Nightingale and a staff of nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
02:31 UTC
OTD | October 18, 1541: Margaret Tudor, Queen consort of Scotland, was born.
14:26 UTC
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