Today’s Significant Events
60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1824 Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo
1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launched after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with revolutionary design
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