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Babel & Babelfish
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- 1409 – The Council of Pisa elected Peter of Candia as Alexander V, becoming the third simultaneous claimant of the papacy during the Western Schism.
- 1844 – Julia Gardiner (pictured) married President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady of the United States.
- 1889 – Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo.
- 1907 – Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia.
- 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, was published.
- Marie Thérèse Geoffrin (b. 1699)
- Mary van Kleeck (b. 1883)
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
- Olive Morris (b. 1952)
Did you know?[edit]
- ... that Clark House (pictured) hosted Cold War meetings?
- ... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?
- ... that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kenichirou Matsuda attended law school trying to become a civil servant?
- ... that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"?
- ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
- ... that Google's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as "harmful" by Mozilla?
- ... that Dick Walker's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later?
- ... that Richard Linklater's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top?