The shootings at Kent State are now closer to the end of World War I than to today

According to Boing Boing, a web experiment called Another Day lines up historical events by the calendar, pairing a moment that still feels recent with an older one to show how close together they actually sit. The jarring example: the Kent State shootings are now nearer in time to the end of the First World War than to the present day.

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