#OnThisDay, August 22, in 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle and his wife narrowly escaped an assassination attempt (depicted in The Day of the Jackal, 1973)
#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, July 18, in 1936, a military uprising led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco against the democratically elected government of Spain started the 3-year-long Spanish Civil War (depicted in While At War, 2019)
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)