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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Assassin Charles Guiteau killed by Stonington collision? 16th January 1883 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory Civil Service Reform Act signed by President Garfield who set his sight on a Reconstruction Revival
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif John Constable had gone to Paris in person - rather than simply sending The Hay Wain? Louvre - 25 August, 1824 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory an underrated English landscape painter journeyed to the Salon biennial art exhibition
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November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #TheTenthCrusade saved Byzantium? Sarzana, Republic of Genoa - 1397 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory Tommaso Parentucell later Pope Nicholas V, the Pontificate who broke the siege of Constantinople
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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 4th April, 1841 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory after recovering from a serious illness believed to be pneumonia, President William Henry Harrison, elected on a Whig platform, signed a new twenty year charter for the Third National Bank www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif the Pre-Columbian plague never happened? 1527 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippians welcome de Vaca Expedition, the first Europeans to set eyes upon the great American city of Cahokia www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Part 2 of the Great Bush Flip of '94. Cincinnati, Ohio - December 19, 1955 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory 44th US President Rob Portman
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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Florida - Oct 1994 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Bush campaign catches fire, Cuban-American turnout surging & a stronger push in I-4 corridor, beating Lawton Chiles by 2 points www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Shirley Chisolm's act of radical empathy ushered in a second reconstruction? 1974 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippi became the 38th state to ratify the Civil Rights Amendment sponsored by the late President Johnson
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November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 1814 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory U.S.A. celebrates a glorious victory at New Orleans, marked as a National Celebration Day (replacing Thanksgiving) paired with the Fourth of July in the American calendar
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November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social 1872 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory with equine influenza pandemic crossing the Canadian border & jumping species to humans, the Boston Fire Department is overwhelmed by the Great Fire outbreak www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory Rome - 1962 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory under the diplomatic mediation of Pope John XXIII, a far-reaching tri-party agreement was signed that significantly reduced the risk of future nuclear confrontation between the super-powers www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Appomattox had been a final desperate Confederate last stand? April 9-12, 1865 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia tries to fight its way west rather than surrender www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #Whatif #comet #deepimpact in 1720? @Tanada1945 1720 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory day before New Moon, a new unseen comet with a nucleus 20 miles long and 12 miles wide shaped like a lumpy potato hit the far side of the moon
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 2025 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the three devolved governments in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast passed parallel independence motions asserting that their democratic authority is derived directly from their citizens, not Westminster www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory April 1, 1789 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the House of Representatives achieved a quorum & officially sat for the first time, putting forth nine senators to form the executive oversight committee, who would then select their chairman
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November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Constitution framers created a "Presidential Oversight Committee"? April 8th, 1952 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory President Truman seized the steel mills under his war powers, claiming it was necessary to ensure national defence
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November 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Ashoka had built a Common Fellowship? 282 BE #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast of Ancient India, was annexed by the Mauryan Empire after a brutal war
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November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Einstein Letter started Manhattan Project eighteen months earlier? 1943-4 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Nazi Germany prepares chemical response to Allied nuclear bombing of Hamburg
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November 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif American support for the Panamanian Revolution failed? November 3rd, 1903 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory timely arrival of the Colombian gunboat Bogoté in the Isthmus ensured the collapse of the tiny Panamanian rebel force
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October 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory February 8th, 1939 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Italian ambassador to Britain Dino Grandi was summoned to the British Foreign Secretary's office and confronted with evidence of Italy's covert assistance to the Mosleyite rebellion
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October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Ottomans Victorious during 1530-1566? 1527 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Suleiman the Magnificent had only ascended five years before Austria invaded Hungary in an attempt to wrest control away from his empire
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October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif state assemblies voted for President? by 1820 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Americans had grown uneasy with the increasingly fractious nature of presidential elections & were ready for Perpetual Union Reform under Amendment XIV
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October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Constitutional Convention introduced a more effective mechanism for limiting executive overreach? 28th March, 1834 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the U.S. Senate voted 26-20 to censure President Andrew Jackson with legal effect
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October 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Wehrmacht switch to diesel? 23rd May, 1940 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the German tank offensive in Normandy suddenly came to an unplanned halt due to a fuel shortage, but Churchill warns "Wars are not won by evacuations"
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October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Labour government accepts Lord Mountbatten's proposal for continued East of Suez commitments through a Commonwealth Defence Partnership? 1965 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Wilson and Healey accept the "Mountbatten Compromise"
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October 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM