Today:
1120 – The White Ship sank in the English Channel, killing William Adelin, heir to the English throne, leading to a succession crisis in England.
1491 – The Siege of Granada began, marking the final campaign of the Reconquista in Spain.
1758 – The British captured Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War, renaming it Fort Pitt, which later became Pittsburgh.
1783 – The last British troops withdrew from New York City, marking the end of British occupation during the American Revolutionary War.
1839 – A cyclone and 40-foot storm surge struck Coringa, India, killing over 300,000 people and destroying the city.
1867 – Alfred Nobel patented dynamite in the United States under patent number 78,317.
1915 – Albert Einstein presented his field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1952 – Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opened in London, beginning its record-breaking run as the longest-running play in history.
1973 – Greek dictator George Papadopoulos was ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1984 – The Band Aid charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? was recorded in London to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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