One of the earliest precisely dated events is two people getting drunk, on 22 October 2137 BCE.
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Quote of the Day
"A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.
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~ Benjamin Disraeli
On This Day
1420 Charles VI cedes France to Henry V of England in the Treaty of Troyes after Henry's victory at Agincourt 5 years earlier.
1471 Henry VI was murdered in the Tower of London, although the Yorkists claimed he died from displeasure and melancholy.
1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber. His mother, prime minister Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, had been assassinated in 1984.