『Globe Theatre Burns, Einstein's Relativity & Canada Is Born | Jun 29–Jul 4』のカバーアート

Globe Theatre Burns, Einstein's Relativity & Canada Is Born | Jun 29–Jul 4

Globe Theatre Burns, Einstein's Relativity & Canada Is Born | Jun 29–Jul 4

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This week in history stretches from a burning theatre in Elizabethan London to the corridors of American democracy — and barely pauses for breath along the way. On June 29, 1613, a misfired cannon set the Globe Theatre ablaze, reducing Shakespeare's iconic playhouse to ash in hours. That same date in 1971 brought the darkest moment of the Space Race: three Soviet cosmonauts — Dobrovolsky, Volkov, and Patsayev — were found dead inside their Soyuz 11 capsule, the only humans ever to die in space.

On June 30, 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk named Albert Einstein submitted the paper that introduced special relativity to the world. The very same date in 1908, something exploded above Tunguska, Siberia, flattening 80 million trees in the largest impact event in recorded history.

July 1 is almost absurdly eventful. In 1858, Darwin and Wallace jointly presented their theory of evolution by natural selection to the Linnean Society. In 1867, Canada was born as a self-governing Dominion. And in 1903, sixty cyclists set off on the very first Tour de France.

July 2 gives us two constitutional landmarks: in 1776, the Continental Congress voted for American independence — the legal moment that mattered — and in 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The episode closes on July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted.

Ten events. One extraordinary week. History, as always, did not slow down.

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