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480 BC The Persian army defeats Leonidas and his Spartan army at the Battle Thermopylae, Persia.

48 BC Julius Caesar defeats Gnaius Pompey at Pharsalus.

1483 Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor.

1549 England declares war on France.

1645 Settlers in New Amsterdam gain peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks.

1805 Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the third coalition against France.

1814 Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory.

1842 The Webster-Ashburton treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada's New Brunswick.

1859 The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year.

1862 At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson repels an attack by Union forces.



JOTD: I was applying for Australian citizenship and the interviewer asked, “Do you have a criminal record?”

I said, “No. Is that still required?”

Inb4That’s how everyone else got inmate
inb4you kept that one locked up for awhile huh?
Inb4Well it was a relatively short sentence I’d say
Inb4But it was said with conviction