WeekInTime Issue 88: The Queen's Powerball

Winners are announced for England's first state lottery in 1569

History Bites

This week in time…

🌊The Great Molasses Flood wipes out Boston's North End in 1919

✉️ Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes Frances’s Dreyfus affair in 1898

🎙️ Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison in 1968

👑 Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, beginning a civil war in 49 B.C.E.

⚔️ The trial of Joan of Arc begins in 1431