British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1787, losing Britain her dominion over the American colonies.


In 1982 Thomas Kneneally won the Booker Prize for Schindler's List, sparking controversy over whether his reconstruction of real events was eligible for the fiction category


The first company formed to manufacture internal combustion engines was set up in Florence, Italy in 1860, to make engines designed by Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci


King John, younger brother of King Richard the Lionheart, died of a fever in 1216, having hastened his end by eating an excess of peaches and drinking too much cider!

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind