On this day · September 2
September 2: the history they never taught you.
2 stories from the archive happened on this date—each drawn from published sources before it was written.
1666
One Monk Stopped the Great Fire of London
A Benedictine monk refused to abandon his monastery as the Great Fire of London roared toward it—and what happened next defied everything authorities thought they knew about urban blazes.
1752
Give Us Back Our Eleven Days!
An English beekeeper miscounted his hives in 1752—and stumbled into the modern calendar system that still governs our lives.
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