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Babel & Babelfish
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- 1536 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.
- 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace (pictured) in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.
- 1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.
- 2004 – The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
- 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
- Henry David Thoreau (d. 1862)
- Martin Brodeur (b. 1972)
- Reg Grundy (d. 2016)
Did you know?[edit]
- ... that a man cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic (flag pictured) was arrested due to reports that he was carrying a bomb?
- ... that Palestinian citizens of Israel hold an annual march to one of the towns and villages from which their community had been displaced in the Nakba?
- ... that the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football team were members of the United Athletic Conference but left before ever having played a game there?
- ... that music director Raul Mitra wanted Regine Velasquez to do an all-rock concert?
- ... that Lore Harp McGovern went from being a housewife to the CEO of a US$36 million computer company in six years?
- ... that police officers had to be flown in by helicopter to seize hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cannabis plants found growing illegally in Jerrawangala National Park?
- ... that many former cast members returned for Arrow's 150th episode?
- ... that the replacement of a semipalmated sandpiper sculpture named Shep in New Brunswick led to a $19,000 investigation over code-of-conduct violations?
- ... that after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake destroyed Napier Technical College, it was disestablished and amalgamated into its rivals?