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East India Comedy’s EIC Outrage has given us various outrages against the society, government and many other social and political issues- but let’s take...

1460 - At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the Lancastrians. 1817...

1170 - St. Thomas A Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on Henry II's...

1065 - Westminster Abbey consecrated 1612 - First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet 1614...

The Bodleian Library wrote: “The Watsons is Jane Austen’s first extant draft of a novel in the process of development and one of the...

563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes. 1777 - Kiritimati, also called...

1807 - The U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with Europe. 1864...

Crowning, de-crowning, re-crowning- this is what Miss Universe 2015 will be remembered for. Host Steve Harvey initially announced the wrong winner- Miss Columbia, crowned...

1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China. 1642 - Abel Tasman's expedition sails...

1728 - Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan to build the city's first synagogue 1790 -...