Gaza’s history dates back over 4,000 years, beginning as a Canaanite settlement before falling under Egyptian rule for 350 years. The Philistines later made it one of their main cities.

In January 1918, an unusual influenza outbreak struck Haskell County, Kansas. Dr. Loring Miner, concerned by the severity, alerted the U.S. Public Health Service, marking the first recorded report of the virus. Local newspapers listed numerous cases of pneumonia and “la grippe,” suggesting a widespread illness.

In the 1920s, heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post built Mar-a-Lago on 17 acres in Palm Beach, Florida. Completed in 1927, the estate featured 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, and an 1,800-square-foot living room. Post spent $7 million—now worth over $90 million—on its construction.

In 2016, Dutch artist Margriet van Breevoort created a sculpture named Homunculus Loxodontus for the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands.

In 1865, Danish inventor Rasmus Malling-Hansen developed the Hansen Writing Ball, recognized as the first commercially produced typewriter.

On September 13, 1848, Phineas P. Gage, a 25-year-old railroad construction foreman, was preparing a charge at a blasting site near Cavendish, Vermont. An accidental explosion dislodged a 3-foot iron tamping rod, which struck his left cheek and exited through the top of his head. Gage was rendered unconscious.

In 1933, after Adolf Hitler assumed power in Germany, Nazi agents arrived in the United States. Officials established the Friends of New Germany, later known as the German American Bund, to promote Nazi ideas.

In 1983, a deep-sea expedition aboard the RV James Cook trawled up a strange fish from the abyssal depths near Australia and New Zealand. It was later described by Joseph Nelson in 1995 as Psychrolutes microporos, a species belonging to the blobfish family. The holotype specimen is preserved in the Museum of New Zealand.

Founded in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) became the country’s primary agency for civilian foreign aid.

In 1969, journalist Susanna McBee walked into multiple doctors’ offices, receiving amphetamine prescriptions within minutes. She was handed colorful diet pills before even speaking. Her investigation revealed a widespread problem—amphetamines were handed out freely, normalized for weight loss and mental health.