1989
Taylor Swift named her album 1989 because of this historic event.
Her birthday
"Me!" features Brandon Urie, lead singer of this pop-rock band.
Panic! At the Disco
At the 2021 Grammy Awards, Swift's album Folklore won this award.
Best Album of the Year
This famous Disney fairytale features the magic ending at midnight.
Cinderella
The award ceremony where Swift announced the impending release of Dead Poets
Grammy Awards
This iconic yellow skinned cartoon family debuted their first episode on Fox.
The Simpsons
The English king that is known for sparking the Reformation, along with having multiple affairs and marriages.
King Henry VIII
The legendary outlaw known for his stance on stealing from the rich to give to the poor
Robin Hood
At midnight on New Years 1863, President Abraham Lincoln officially freed the slaves with this executive order.
The Emancipation Proclamation
She survived a suicide attempt is 1953 to which she later fictionalized in her novel The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
This is one of the worst environmental disasters in US history and occurred off the coast of Alaska
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Influencing the politics of Roam and Egypt, she had a relationships with the married Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Cleopatra VII
The Greek mythological creature called the Minotaur is half man and half this farm animal.
Bull
At midnight on Oct 24 1962, this US president's navel quarantine of Cuba took effect.
John F Kennedy
Edgar Allen Poe got himself deliberately expelled from this New York academy
West Point Military Academy
This was a violent communist military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations resulting in hundreds (if not thousands) of deaths in China
Tiananmen Square
The US president that is widely believed to have had a long-term relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his enslaved workers.
Thomas Jefferson
Perseus, son of Zeus, petrified the Kraken by using this unconventional biological weapon.
The severed head of Medusa
At midnight on Dec 5 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending this era in American history
Prohibition
This famously reclusive poet that wrote nearly 1800 poems, but only 10 were published in her lifetime
Emily Dickinson
The "Battle of the Bay" World Series is where the Oakland Athletics swept this team.
San Francisco Giants
In this popular novel set in puritan New England, Hester Prynne has an affair with the town reverend, resulting in a child and a life of public shaming.
The Scarlet Letter
The name of the railroad worker that raced against the steam powered hammer.
John Henry
"It's like this at the beach, Weird but f*ing beautiful"
Snow
One of this English Romantic poet's odes titled "Ode to a Nightingale" is about the pain of human existence and the desire to escape through the timeless song of nature
John Keats