Moments in Time – December 4, 2024

#MiddleburyCT On Dec. 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler instituted the Mother’s Cross, a medal awarded as part of an initiative designed to encourage women of “pure” German ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – October 23, 2024

#MiddleburyCT On Nov. 4, 1960, English primatologist Jane Goodall was observing a group of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania when she saw one of them making and ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – June 12, 2024

#MiddleburyCT On June 24, 2005, actor Tom Cruise rattled and debated with interviewer Matt Lauer, host of NBC’s morning talk show “Today,” with his criticism of antidepressant ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – June 5, 2024

#MiddleburyCT On June 17, 2015, 21-year-old Dylann Roof joined members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., for a Bible study session before drawing a ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – July 13, 2022

#Middlebury On July 31, 1715, a hurricane strikes the East Coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships carrying tons of gold and silver coins and killing nearly 1,000 people. ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – July 6, 2022

#Middlebury On July 24, 1567, during her imprisonment at Lochleven Castle in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son, later crowned King ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – April 7, 2021

#Middlebury On April 25, 1719, Daniel Defoe’s “The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” is published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Jan. 15, 2020

#Middlebury On Jan. 31, 1606, at Westminster in London, Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, jumps to his death before his execution for ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Jan. 8, 2020

#Middlebury On Jan. 26, 1918, soon after the Bolsheviks seized control in Russia, the former Russian state of Ukraine declares its total independence. In 1922, Ukraine became part ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – April 17, 2019

#Middlebury On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military leader who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of ... Continue Reading →