『Columbus Lands, Sound Barrier Broken & Battle of Hastings | Oct 12–17』のカバーアート

Columbus Lands, Sound Barrier Broken & Battle of Hastings | Oct 12–17

Columbus Lands, Sound Barrier Broken & Battle of Hastings | Oct 12–17

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This week in history stretches from a Bahamian shoreline in 1492 to the skies over California in 1947, and almost every day between October 12th and 17th carries the weight of a world transformed.

Christopher Columbus makes his landfall on San Salvador, setting Europe and the Americas on a collision course that will remake both. Two days later, William of Normandy defeats King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, an afternoon that rewrites the English language, its laws, and its aristocracy forever. On the same date in 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager — nursing two broken ribs he told almost no one about — climbs into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

In between, the Boston Red Sox claim baseball's very first modern World Series in 1903; Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier becomes the first human to leave the ground aboard a Montgolfier hot air balloon in 1783; Marie Antoinette faces the guillotine in revolutionary Paris in 1793; and Martin Luther King Jr. is named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1964 — at just 35, the youngest recipient in history to that point.

Walt and Roy Disney sign the papers founding the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, and a fifteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres a full opera in Milan in 1771.

Eight events. Eight centuries. One extraordinary week.

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