1349: Black Death Massacre: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe

1804: Napoleonic Code is adopted in France, stressing clearly written and accessible law
Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley with Kalulu who he later adoptedHenry Morton Stanley’s Expedition to Africa

1871: Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

1975: Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years

2014: Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation

2024: Elon Musk’s Neuralink company posts a video of a patient playing chess online using a brain implant

Source: Onthisday.com