On This Day in History |
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1398 Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultan's armored elephants. |
1531 Pope Clement VII publishes papal bull "Cum ad nihil magis", introduces the Inquisition into Portugal at Evora, Coimbra and Lisbon. |
1788 Russian army led by Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Ochakov in modern-day Ukraine after a five-month-long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War |
 | Seconds into the first ever flight of the Wright Flyer |
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1903 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
1986 Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. |
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The royal princes are the latest celebrities to favor headgear that was introduced on this day, the Bowler top hat. |
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