Topic: Walter Bagehot

On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was "a thing that existed to be looked at." This became even truer in death.

On April 15, 2014, after sending a distress signal, a South Korean ferry capsized off the country's southern coast, an incident that killed about 300 people.

On April 15, 1986, the United States launched airstrikes against Libya in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. soldiers.

On April 15, 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered airstrikes against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in response to the bombing of a Berlin discotheque.

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