You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
1414 Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England, died.
1878 Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for “an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines.”
1968 Damages are to be awarded under a settlement agreed in the High Court to 62 children born with deformities, after their mothers took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
1985 William Schroeder (d.1986) was the 1st artificial heart patient to leave [the] hospital. He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
What stands out to you?
For seminary professors everywhere, it’s Birkinstock’s birthday!
For patriots everywhere, it’s the anniversary of the landing at Iwo Jima.
1674 – The Third Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, with England regaining New York, and the Netherlands taking Suriname. I wonder who got the better end of that deal?