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On this day in COVID history, October 27, 2020: What defines an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine? A review of the challenges assessing the clinical efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 Source: The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1473-3099(20)30773-8/fulltext

Wordle 1,956 3/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 On this day in history: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

With all the talk about the Edmonton Oilers’ Hometown Remix jerseys, Oct. 27 marks an important date in their jersey history. On this day 25 years ago, the Oilers played their first game in the iconic Oil Drop jersey, one... http://oilerhockey.com/article/42124 #Oilers #NHL #hockey #edmontonoilers

A slightly late #OnThisDay. On 27 October 1868 William Neal Gillies was born in Eccleston, New South Wales. He served as the 21st Premier of Queensland in 1925 as leader of the Labor Party. #OTD #history #qldpol #qldpolitics #nsw #newsouthwales #politics

On This Day In DEF LEPPARD History - 27th October 2026 🇬🇧 Concerts, Releases and Events: #dltourhistory #onthisday #defleppard www.deflepparduk.com/on-this-day-...

In almost exactly 48 hours from now, you can check out @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's next awesome interdisciplinary roundtable, this time featuring a trio of excellent scholars discussing their work on Horror, Fear, & Reality. The really scary thing would be missing this great conversation! 🗃️

Great presentation today by Dr. Ashley Morin! 🗃️ #history

On this day 1714 years ago, Constantine defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge near Rome. The victory shattered the Tetrarchy - the system of four co-rulers that had governed the empire - and set Constantine on the path to sole rule. What followed... https://recap.at/312/milvian-bridge-battle

751 years ago, on the 27th of October 1275, Amsterdam was first mentioned (as Amestelledamme) in a document exempting the inhabitants of the settlement from paying a bridge toll to Count Floris V of Holland. The name refers to the dam in the Amstel river. #otd #history 🗃️

#OnThisDay 26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hoa6AMB9Vo #history#OTD 26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hoa6AMB9Vo #historyteacher #sschat

#OnThisDay in 1995, Malta made international headlines. This original 1968 Corinthia Palace Hotel Malta ad captures the island's golden era of luxury travel—before history changed everything. #Travel https://www.vintagepaperads.com/1968-Corinthia-Palace-Hotel-Malta-Advertisement_p_177332.html

Wordle 1,955 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 On this day in history: www.history.com/this-day-in-...

What happened on this day in history October 27

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

Before you watch the WS Game 3, learn about the 1859 championship team “renowned for their skill at catching a base by their hands, swinging around them with force enough to throw themselves completely through the air, & leaping flamboyantly forward to the next base”! @keithlaw.bsky.social 🗃️

Thirty-one years ago this week, Quebec came within 50,000 votes of leaving Canada. The 1995 referendum on independence was so close - 50.58% voted No - that it nearly fractured the country. The result forced Canada to reckon with Quebec's... https://recap.at/1995/quebec-sovereignty-referendum

🐏 🐂 🐦 Cypriot stamp seal of a bucranium, a bull and birds, 2,000 BC (!). Diameter: 1,8 cm. Read about our exciting discovery of elegant ancient decorations where you’d least expect them: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/boocrania 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology #AncientBlueSky

#OnThisDay 25 October 2022 Rishi Sunak, leader of the Conservative Party, took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Truss, the previous Conservative leader. #OTD #history #ukpol #UKPolitics #politics

Drag Ball '92 w/ Martin McCann and @toniewalsh.bsky.social #onthisday in 1992. For more #flyers, photos and anecdotes from #Dublin's clubbing history, check out www.analog-rhythms.com. 🙂

On this day. I remember this because I was watching the game. ✌🏿✊🏿🏈 www.history.com/this-day-in-...

What happened on this day in history October 26

On this day in 1854, at Balaclava, in Crimea, a battlefield miscommunication led a brigade of British cavalry to make a suicidal frontal attack against Russian artillery. #history

On This Day In DEF LEPPARD History - 25th October 2026 🇬🇧 Concerts, Releases and Events: #dltourhistory #onthisday #defleppard www.deflepparduk.com/on-this-day-...

At our ASA session this morning, Vaughn & I talked about how public scholarship isn't just about sharing our own work--it's also & especially about supporting & sharing that of our colleagues. I love the chance to do that each week, & would love y'all to share it as well! @lollardfish.bsky.social 🗃️

An 1893 engraving, from the founder's library: The Judgment of God. Two men fighting inside the lists, the single combat to be decided by the judgment of God. In the Illustration Archive: thethinkingpress.org/illustrations 🗃️ #history #bookhistory

On this day 133 years ago, the Battle of the Shangani unfolded near the Shangani River in what is now Zimbabwe. A British South Africa Company column led by Major Patrick Forbes was attacked at night by Ndebele Kingdom warriors. Superior firearms proved... https://recap.at/1893/shangani-battle

On this day in 1415, the Battle of Agincourt was fought near Azincourt in northern France. Vastly outnumbered English forces defeated a French army, shifting the course of the Hundred Years' War. Thousands died on that October field - a reckoning that would... https://recap.at/1415/battle-agincourt

Remembering Jo Siffert, who died #OnThisDay in 1971 after a fiery crash at Brands Hatch. A two-time F1 winner, he claimed his final victory with Rob Walker Racing at the 1968 British Grand Prix, also at Brands Hatch. Story/Images by Formula One History

On this day in #Liason History...10/24/2012 Elizabeth grapples with Jason's death. #GH #LiasonReunionNow youtu.be/H8GvD2Tyzsg?...

On this day in COVID history, October 24, 2020: COVID’s Other Toll: Unnecessary Tests and Huge Hospital Bills Source: Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covids-other-toll-unnecessary-tests-and-huge-hospital-bills/

On this day in COVID history, October 24, 2020: 'The Price is Right' is returning with new safety measures, including no audience members Source: CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-price-is-right-coronavirus-no-audience/

On This Day In DEF LEPPARD History - 24th October 2026 🇬🇧 Concerts, Releases and Events: #dltourhistory #onthisday #defleppard www.deflepparduk.com/on-this-day-...

On this day in 1973: President Nixon abruptly agreed to hand the Watergate tapes to Judge John Sirica, ending 3 months of insisting they stay in the White House. The reversal came just hours after the House took its first tentative steps toward impeachment. #OnThisDay #history

Back in June, I got this article promoted to GA status. Alberic II held majornunfournce over the church and appointed five popes. Right before he died, he had the Roman aristocracy pledge to appoint his son pope. His son Pope John XII was the one wh9 crowned Otto the Great. 🗃️

On this day 109 years ago, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd and seized control of Russia's government. The takeover lasted roughly two days with surprisingly little organized resistance - but it fractured the world.... https://recap.at/1917/winter-palace-storming

On this day in 1929, the stock market collapsed. October 29 saw panic selling on the NYSE wipe out fortunes in hours. What followed was a decade of bank failures, mass unemployment, and suffering across America and the world. The crash exposed how fragile... https://recap.at/1929/wall-street-crash

No letter. #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday

On this day in COVID history, October 23, 2020: Coronavirus updates: AstraZeneca, J&J resume vaccine trials as U.S. nears record highs for new cases Source: CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/23/coronavirus-live-updates.html

What happened on this day in history October 24

Spoiler warnings for the 1999 film “Virus”. No CW because that shit is ancient at this point. I love the fact that the black man in the movie subverted all the tropes by acknowledging the shit that had come before him in history and deuced out. Only to come back and save the day later. Even […]

I came across this page through the random article feature and improved it back in 2025. It's an unknown artist whose works ended up being owned by Charles I. Check out the page notname for more interesting artists like this 🗃️

I have to complement @emmbadger.bsky.social for actually going to the New York Historical Society to pull the original drawings by McKim, Mead, and White. I told her that the limited scholarship on the topic meant she'd have to dig in herself, and she did! 🗃️

St. Anthony’s fire: The burning limbs and gangrene of ergotism, epidemic in medieval Europe, were nursed by the Order of St. Anthony, whose saint had wrestled demons in the desert. Ergot (Claviceps purpurea), in the Materia Medica: thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/ergot 🗃️ #history #histsci

On this day in 1648, two peace treaties signed in Osnabrück and Münster ended the Thirty Years' War - a conflict that had ravaged Central Europe for three decades and killed roughly eight million people. The Peace of Westphalia didn't just stop the... https://recap.at/1648/peace-of-westphalia

🗃️ Call for Papers: Journal of American History Textbooks and Teaching section, 2028 We invite submissions for the March 2028 Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. 👇🏽

On this day 43 years ago, suicide bombers drove two truck bombs into military barracks in Beirut, killing 307 people - 241 American and 58 French soldiers, along with six civilians. It remains the deadliest single attack on U.S. military personnel... https://recap.at/1983/beirut-barracks-bombings

#OnThisDay 22 October 1976 Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh resigned as President of Ireland, having served since 1974 as a member of Fianna Fáil. He was succeeded in December by Patrick John Hillery, a fellow Fianna Fáil member. #OTD #history #iepol #irlpol #irishpol #irishpolitics #politics