Today’s Significant Events
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his “Meditations on First Philosophy”
1674 – Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle
1918 – Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
1989 – Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
