Battle of Flanders

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The Mary Rose ship, Henry VIII’s treasured ship and Britain’s first dedicated warship was sunk during a naval battle against the French in 1545. The wreckage resurrected in 1982.

The 25th US President, William McKinley, was the third sitting president to lose his life to an assassin’s bullet. Who assassinated President McKinley and more.

Thomas Edison was not the first to invent the lightbulb, but he did create a commercially viable incandescent bulb with carbon filament.

Lewis Carroll created the story for Alice in Wonderland on a River Thames boat ride near Oxford, in which a bored young girl Alice (named after Alice Liddell, another passenger on the boat) falls down a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.

Operation Reunion in late August 1944, when 1,162 captured Allied airmen were repatriated to their airbases. The repatriation spanned 4 days from August 31st to September 3rd.

Henry Ford’s Model T, one of the longest production models in automotive history sold over 15 million cars between 1908 and 1927.

After the roaring 20s, overconfidence led many to take on highly leveraged positions which inflated prices to unsustainable levels. Black Monday, Run on Banks, and The Great Depression all followed.