On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
producers ask higher prices because of drought
Holds Roosevelt 3d-term would be dangerous precedent
USSR purge victim; por
reaction by Chungking, Shanghai, Wash and Japan
New evidence of the increasing flow of capital and investments away from war-worried Europe to this country came to light yesterday when it became known that the Swiss Bank Corporation of Basle, Switzerland, one of the leading financial institutions of that bank-...
1939The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.[†]
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was thought to be buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown. The helmet was both a functional piece of armour and a decorative piece of metalwork. An iconic object from an archaeological find hailed as the "British Tutankhamen", it has become a symbol of the Early Middle Ages, "of Archaeology in general", and of England.