March 28, 2026 — Today is National Something on a Stick Day, which feels like proof that if you put food on a stick, people will suddenly be much more excited about eating it.
Today we’re looking at three very different moments in history—each one changing the systems people were living inside.
First, the end of the Spanish Civil War as Nationalist forces entered Madrid in 1939, bringing a brutal three-year conflict to a close.
Then, the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear incident—the most serious nuclear power accident in U.S. history, and one that reshaped how people viewed nuclear energy, even though the reality was more complicated than most remember.
And finally, the first video ever uploaded to YouTube in 2005—a simple 18-second clip that helped launch a platform that would completely transform how we share and consume media.
Different events. Different scales. But each one left a lasting impact.
Anyway… those are a few of the things I ended up discovering while wandering through March 28.