6 Aug, 1890 - First Execution By Electric Chair At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe. @todayinhistoryy

Channel
Today In History
@todayinhistoryy
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Handles named that no longer answer · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
528subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001163668526 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @todayinhistoryy |
| Created | 9 August 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 13 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/todayinhistoryy |
Topic
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 73% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Sept 2026, 01:39 | 528 | -3 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 17:07 | 531 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 06:06 | 530 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:52 | 528 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 20:03 | 528 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 2 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
6 Aug, 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson Born English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian Age in poetry, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire. @todayinhistoryy
6 Aug, 1806 - The Roman Empire Falls After a thousand years the Holy Roman Empire came to its official end, with the secession of its confederated states, when Emperor Francis II of Austria put down the imperial crown. @todayinhistoryy
6 Aug, 1945 - The U.S Drops An Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. @todayinhistoryy
5 Aug, 1930 - Neil Armstrong Born U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. @todayinhistoryy
5 Aug, 1963 - The Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in Moscow. @todayinhistoryy
5 Aug, 2019 - Toni Morrison Dies American writer Toni Morrison, who earned a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for novels that examine the Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community, died at age 88. @todayinhistoryy
5 Aug, 2024 - Sheikh Hasina Wazed Fled Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Bangladesh's five-term prime minister, fled the country amid mass protests against her government; Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate, was named the country's interim leader @todayingistoryy
5 Aug, 1960 - Independence declared by Upper Volta Upper Volta—now Burkina Faso (which means “Land of Incorruptible People”), a landlocked country in western Africa—proclaimed its independence on this day in 1960, ending more than 60 years of French rule. @todayinhistoryy
4 Aug, 1901 - Louis Armstrong Born Louis Armstrong, a prolifically gifted natural musician and the leading trumpeter in jazz history, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. @todayinhistoryy
4 Aug, 1794 - Gibraltar Captured By Britain During the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain took control of Gibraltar on this day in 1704 after Spain surrendered, and “the Rock” subsequently became a British colony and a symbol of British naval strength. @todayinhistoryy
4 Aug, 1753 - George Washington Becomes A Master Mason George Washington, a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry. The ceremony was held at the Masonic Lodge No. 4 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. @todayinhistoryy
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @todayinhistoryy. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@todayinhistoryy named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 1 post, 8 August 2026 – 8 August 2026
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@givealltheheart · 21,184
Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 25 September 2026
@UP_BoardWallah · 44,505
Telegram ranks this channel #18 of 31 here — alongside 30 others — read 28 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Today In History” (@todayinhistoryy), 528 subscribers as measured 7 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/todayinhistoryy.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.