17 maggio

Sher Shah Suri drove Humayun into exile and in five years reorganised the north: a silver rupiya, a land survey and a road with rest houses from Bengal to the Indus that the Mughals kept. Humayun came back fifteen years later.

After Murad IV retook Baghdad, the Ottomans and Safavids drew a frontier through the Zagros mountains. It still roughly divides Iran from Turkey and Iraq.

Lucy tells Mina about Mr. Holmwood and about a doctor who has “an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care”, Dr. Seward, and then confesses of Arthur: “I love him; I love him; I love him!” The letter is headed only “Wednesday”, with no day of the month: this timeline places it on 17 May, the…

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. — Chief Justice Earl Warren A unanimous Court overturned the rule of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) for schools. The case bundled five suits; its…

Eighty-seven days.

The Tanzanian ran from the front, as he always did, and became the first African to hold the mile record.

Almost nine years over his two records, longer than anyone before him.

Markus Persson, known as Notch, posted an early version to a forum after building it in his spare time from a day job in Stockholm. Microsoft bought his company, Mojang, for $2.5 billion in 2014, and Minecraft became the best-selling video game ever, past 300 million copies.