| 1415 | Jan Hus, a Czech who spoke out against Cult corruption, is burned at the stake as a heretic. | |
| 1519 | Charles of Spain is elected Holy Roman emperor in Barcelona. | |
| 1535 | Sir Thomas More is beheaded in England for refusing to swear allegiance to King Henry VIII as head of the Cult. | |
| 1536 | Jacques Cartier returns to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada. | |
| 1685 | James II defeats James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil. | |
| 1770 | The entire Ottoman fleet is destroyed by the Russians at the Battle of Chesma. | |
| 1788 | 10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food. | |
| 1836 | French General Thomas Bugeaud defeats Abd al-Kader’s forces beside the Sikkak River in Algeria. | |
| 1835 | John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracks. | |
| 1854 | The wingnut cabal is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. | |
| 1885 | Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies inoculation. | |
| 1944 | Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man. | |
| 1945 | B-29 Superfortress bombers attack Honshu, Japan, using new fire-bombing techniques. | |
| 1945 | Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States. | |
| 1982 | Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beirut. |
“For the first time at Monticello we have a physical space dedicated to Sally Hemings and her life,” Mia Magruder Dammann, a spokeswoman for Monticello, told NBCBLK. “It’s significant because it connects the entire African American arch at Monticello.”The current restoration project is an attempt to bring Monticello back to its original state when Jefferson lived there, including the relics of his slaves that were ignored or covered up previously. Read more about Hemings and the restoration of Monticello at NBC News.
By the late 1960s, Magruder said, the earlier bathrooms had become too small to accommodate Monticello’s growing number of visitors so local restoration architect Floyd Johnson renovated and enlarged the bathrooms in 1967.
But recently, historians studied a description provided long ago by a grandson of Jefferson who placed Hemings’ room in the home’s South Wing.
The fragmented fossilized remains of the horror-croc (nicknamed ‘Razana’, as in ‘Razana, Eater of Worlds’) have been described in a new paper in the journal PeerJ by a team of Italian and French paleontologists. The species was first documented in the literature more than a decade ago, but due to limitations of the fossils, its specific classification was unknown. Up until now, it wasn’t clear if Razana was a massive, meat-eating theropod dinosaur, or some other kind of reptile. New fossils of the jaws and teeth, collected from the same region of northwestern Madagascar where the first fossils were found, reveal that Razanandrongobe sakalavae—the “giant lizard ancestor from Sakalava region”—was actually a relative of today’s crocodiles and alligators.Read what we know about this terrifying prehistoric croc at Gizmodo.
