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991 Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Byrhtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon.

1492 Rodrigo Borgia is elected to the papacy as Pope Alexander VI.

1792 A revolutionary commune is formed in Paris, France.

1856 A band of rampaging settlers in California kill four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities.

1862 President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army.

1904 German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa.

1906 In France, Eugene Lauste receives the first patent for a talking film.

1908 Britain's King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy.

1912 Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicates his throne in the face of internal dissent.

1916 The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans.



Fact of the Day: The oldest "your mom" joke was discovered on a 3500 year old Babylonian tablet.