1248: Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates
1644: “Areopagitica”, a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published
1869: The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
2018: US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
2019: Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Source: Onthisday.com
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