The Dining Hall is the perfect place to take a break from your studies. Meet your fellow students or colleagues to chat about anything else the world has to offer. For the most part, any interest you want to share is fair game—just steer clear of contemporary politics.
I have a strong feeling @HistBuff will enjoy this topic
I have a hobby in genealogy and enjoy some of the things I come across while reading about people from a different time. Sometimes "on this day in history" can be interesting and good to talk about.
To keep the idea of not focusing on politics, let's avoid anything after the year 1950.
On this day in history in 1936, Britain’s King George V died after his physician injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. The king was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne 11 months later to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
Well, two American presidents were inaugurated on this day, one of them in 1937, 1941, and 1945 and the other in 1949. Luckily Roosevelt and Truman didn't provoke strong political opinions in others.
On 25 January 1533, King Henry VIII secretly and, well, sort of bigamously (he had already wed her in secret a little earlier, but that was too much for his churchmen) married Anne Boleyn.
On 30 January 1948 in New Delhi, the capital of the newly independent India, Nathuram Godse shot and killed Mahatma Gandhi. The vanquisher of the British Raj died by the hand of a fellow Indian.
