One of the things we tend to hear is that "history is just about a bunch of dead white guys", but that's far from the truth. There are many things wrong with that statement, but I just wanted to remember that we write history with our lives every day. Our community, our city, our state, our region, our nation, and the world make history happen just by existing and moving through space. |
- January 31 is the expected date on which the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union.
- April 21 is Queen Elizabeth II's 94th birthday.
- July 17 is the planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.
- July 24 is the starting date for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
- November 3 is the United States presidential election.
- Additionally, the Grand Egyptian Museum, supposedly the largest archaeological museum in the world, is expected to be open to the public, including display of the entire King Tutankamun collection for the first time, as well as a total of about 50,000 artifacts.
One thing we don't realize is that you never know where history will be made. While the events above will happen, only a few of them will make the history books. History that sticks is usually something unexpected, and it is our reaction to those events that make our place in history revered or repulsed.