Jul 3, 2026 | day-marking, Journal
Today is Friday, July 3, 2026. Tomorrow, in a small number of hours, is Saturday, July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by representatives of the Thirteen Colonies in Philadelphia. The official name for tomorrow is the...
Jul 1, 2026 | day-marking, Journal
Today is Wednesday, July 1, 2026. It is Canada Day, and the 159th anniversary of Confederation. On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act united Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into a single Dominion — four provinces, one statute, one date. The...
Jun 23, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Today is the 114th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. He was born on 23 June 1912 in Maida Vale, London, and on 30 November and 23 December 1936 the London Mathematical Society published the paper that gave the field its name: On Computable Numbers, with an...
Jun 19, 2026 | day-marking, Journal
It is Friday, June 19, 2026. It is the 161st anniversary of the day Union General Gordon Granger and roughly two thousand troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 to the people there. The order informed enslaved Black Texans that they were free...
