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1121 Battle of Didgori: Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the renowned Seljuk commander Ilghazi |
1480 Ottoman troops conquer Otranto in southern Italy after a 15-day siege, killing 12,000, enslaving 5,000, and beheading 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam |
1851 American inventor Isaac Singer patents his famous sewing machine |
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1908 Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford himself first tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and northern Michigan |
1981 Don Estridge unveils the company's first personal computer, the IBM PC, at New York’s Waldorf Hotel. Priced at USD 1,565 with 16 kilobytes of RAM, it helps bring computing to the masses |
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Also Christian III and Alexei Nikolaevich. |
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Also William Blake and John Philip Holland. |
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A frigate with more than 150 souls on board, as well as nearly three tons of gold, sailed out of Melbourne on this day – never to be seen again. |
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