On this day, August 31, Princess Diana suffered a fatal accident in 1997, while on the same day in 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph, and the first victim of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper was discovered in 1888.
As we can see, history is made every day, even on a random August 31st. But if that's forgotten, all of the achievements, fights, hard work, and lessons risk fading away. To ensure that doesn’t happen, we are sharing a list of historical facts, events, and pictures from the History Season Instagram account that not many know about. Scroll down to check them out for yourself, and don’t forget to upvote those that piqued your curiosity the most.
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with a history teacher, Brooke Rogers, aka That New Teacher, and a former history teacher and founder of Students of History, Luke Rosa, who kindly agreed to tell us how they keep their curiosity for history alive and how we can too.
