https://historyallday.com/barrosos-2-1922-venezuela-oil-gusher-nine-days/History All Dayen2026-11-10Venezuela's Oil Age Began With a Well That Sprayed Crude for Nine Days https://historyallday.com/berger-1972-booker-prize-black-panthers-guyana-sugar/History All Dayen2026-11-10In 1972 John Berger Won the Booker and Gave Half to the Black Panthers https://historyallday.com/big-bend-1944-roosevelt-international-park-border-wall/History All Dayen2026-11-10Big Bend Was Meant to Be Half of a Park Shared With Mexico, Not a Wall https://historyallday.com/egypt-1858-heir-drowned-nile-train-ferry-ismail/History All Dayen2026-11-10Egypt's Heir Drowned When His Train Fell in the Nile, and Ismail Got Egypt https://historyallday.com/hatta-1956-indonesia-vice-president-resigned-17-years-empty/History All Dayen2026-11-10Indonesia's First Vice President Quit in 1956. The Post Sat Empty 17 Years https://historyallday.com/attalus-iii-133-bc-willed-kingdom-rome-antalya-cop31/History All Dayen2026-11-09Antalya's Founding Dynasty Ended When a King Left His Kingdom to Rome https://historyallday.com/cenotaph-1919-lutyens-plaster-temporary-whitehall-remembrance/History All Dayen2026-11-09The Cenotaph Was Built in Plaster for One Parade and Never Taken Down https://historyallday.com/south-africa-1948-election-smuts-won-votes-lost-power/History All Dayen2026-11-09In 1948 South Africa's Ruling Party Won the Most Votes and Lost Power https://historyallday.com/uruguay-1919-christmas-family-day-tourism-week-pope-leo/History All Dayen2026-11-09Uruguay Renamed Christmas Family Day in 1919. Pope Leo Just Visited Anyway https://historyallday.com/bayh-1969-house-voted-abolish-electoral-college-senate/History All Dayen2026-11-08The House Voted 338 to 70 to Abolish the Electoral College in 1969 https://historyallday.com/cs-alert-1914-cut-germany-cables-zimmermann-baltic/History All Dayen2026-11-08Britain Cut Germany's Undersea Cables on the First Night of War in 1914 https://historyallday.com/moinet-1816-first-chronograph-lost-rieussec-credit/History All Dayen2026-11-08The First Chronograph Was Lost for 200 Years and Credited to Someone Else https://historyallday.com/rabin-1992-arab-parties-blocking-bloc-oslo-eisenkot/History All Dayen2026-11-08Eisenkot Has Arab Backing. Rabin's 1992 Government Lived on It Too https://historyallday.com/self-respect-marriage-1928-periyar-no-priests-duraimurugan/History All Dayen2026-11-08Periyar's 1928 Weddings Had No Priests. A DMK Leader Has Just Apologised