#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
#OnThisDay, January 6, in 1994, U.S. Figure Skating Champion Nancy Kerrigan was bludgeoned with a police baton on her right lower thigh by an assailant hired by the husband of her rival, Tonya Harding (depicted in I, Tonya, 2017, starring Margot Robbie)
#OnThisDay, October 7, in 1849, American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe died from an unexplained cause after being found delirious on the streets of Baltimore (depicted in The Raven, 2012)
#OnThisDay, October 5, in 1972, Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot, married Mary Carr (depicted in My Left Foot, 1989, starring Daniel Day-Lewis)
#OnThisDay, October 3, in 1712, the Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor, who was branded an outlaw for defaulting on a loan after the loan money was stolen (depicted in Rob Roy, 1995, starring Liam Neeson)
#OnThisDay, October 2, in 1902, Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London (depicted in Miss Potter, 2006)
#OnThisDay, September 14, in 1812, the Great Fire of Moscow began as Napoleon approached the city and retreating Russians burned it (depicted in the BBC series War & Peace, 2016)
#OnThisDay, August 26, in 1920, the 19th Amendment made laws reserving the ballot for men unconstitutional. Some American women were able to vote—due to voter suppression, Black women weren’t able to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (depicted in Iron Jawed Angels, 2004)
#OnThisDay, August 17, in 1585, a group of colonists landed off the coast of present-day North Carolina, creating a military colony on Roanoke Island, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane (depicted in American Horror Story: Roanoke)
#OnThisDay, August 12, 30 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, took her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome (depicted in Cleopatra, 1963)
#OnThisDay, August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air (depicted in The Walk, 2015)
#OnThisDay, July 28, in 2002, nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, PA, were rescued after 77 hours underground (depicted in The Pennsylvania Miners' Story, 2002)