17

Sep

On This Day…

642 - Arab forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria  1683 - Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria  1862 - Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the…

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08

Jul

On This Day…

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta 1497 - Portuguese…

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19

Nov

On This Day…

1530 - The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes 1620 - The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast 1805 -Lewis and Clark Expedition, led…

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25

Aug

On This Day…

1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers  1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded  1768 - Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth,…

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24

Aug

On This Day…

79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die  410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen…

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23

Aug

On This Day…

1542 - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code  1850 - 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts  1972 - Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder in…

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22

Aug

On This Day…

1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle. …

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17

Aug

On This Day…

1590 - Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]  1903 - Joe Pulitzer…

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