Battle of the Coral Sea

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Annie Oakley was born in 1860 and soon became an expert marksman while hunting in the Darke County, Ohio region. After besting professional sharpshooter Frank Butler, the pair of gunslingers would get married and travel the world as competitive sharpshooters.

Despite the Silk Road’s obvious link to the trade of Chinese silks, the term “Silk Road” wasn’t coined until 1877. From commodities like vegetables and leather to intangibles like language, culture and philosophy, the Silk Routes were operational from 130 BCE to 1453 when trade with China was banned by the Ottoman Empire.

Weather forecasting has gradually grown in sophistication from its history of almanac algorithms and crowdsourced weather observations to more accurate predictive modeling.

Boxing day traces back to a Charles Dickens reference to the holiday in 1833, but its origins are widely disputed. Today, the holiday is known as a day of charity, family, and sporting events.

Albert Einstein, educated in Physics and Math, had his “marvelous year” of theoretical productivity in 1905, catapulting him into the spotlight of intellectual fame and professorship until his death in 1955.

The Glorious Revolution, caused by King James II’s abuse of power, forced his peers to plead with William of Orange to invade England and remove the king. James fled to France after witnessing mutiny and would become the last absolute monarch with the signing of the English Bill of Rights, which shifted the country to a constitutional monarchy.

Leonardo da Vinci was a celebrated painter and polymath during the Italian Renaissance. He conceptualized many useful—and some fanciful—inventions and created masterworks like The Last Supper, Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man.