Let’s look at major events that happened today in history;
- 1066 – William, the Conqueror’s troops, set sail from Normandy to conquer England.
- 1290 – An earthquake in the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China reportedly kills 100,000 people.
- 1779 – John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.
- 1821 – Mexican revolutionary forces led by Agustín de Iturbide occupied Mexico City as the Spanish withdrew, ending the Mexican War of Independence.
- 1822 – French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone.
- 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
- 1908 – Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
