1066: William the Conqueror’s troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England
1290: 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 occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw, bringing an end to 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
Source: Οnthisday.com
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