| 118 | Hadrian, Rome’s new emperor, makes his entry into the city. | |
| 455 | Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West. | |
| 1553 | Maurice of Saxony is mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. | |
| 1609 | Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of worship. | |
| 1755 | General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops. | |
| 1789 | In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution. | |
| 1790 | The Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea. | |
| 1850 | U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore. | |
| 1861 | Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky. | |
| 1900 | The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government. | |
| 1942 | Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse. | |
| 1943 | American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily. | |
| 1971 | The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units. |
8. THEY SUGGEST YOU DON’T USE THE CUPS.That's just one of 12 secrets hotel maids share with us at Mental Floss.
Although you’ve probably heard warnings about the bacteria teeming on your hotel room’s remote control, hotel maids reveal that there’s another item in your room that's rarely cleaned as well as it should be. “Not using the cups is my number one rule that I tell everyone,” Booboo_the_bear says. “I’ve definitely seen [other maids] polishing glasses with the same cloth they just used to dust the room. I’ve never seen the toilet brush used but knowing some of the people I work with, it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.”
Author and hotel worker Jacob Tomsky adds that the minibar glasses need to be spotless, but maids don’t have dish soap in their housekeeping carts. “So some housekeepers will wash the glasses in the sink with hot water and shampoo. But many of them use furniture polish because it leaves the glasses spot-free,” he tells USA Today.
On Sunday, Beijing's Dongcheng district police bureau announced on Weibo that it had started an investigation into the company behind the TEB project—Huaying Kailai, an online investing platform not unlike Crowdcube. The police say they are holding more than 30 people, including Bai Zhiming who runs both Huaying Kailai and the TEB project.
Dr. Shannon Moore of Hocking Hills Animal Clinic in
Logan, Ohio, tells how she ran into a former patient while hiking in
the woods. Since she's a veterinarian, there wasn't much conversation,
but she did stop to examine how her work was holding up, and take a couple pictures.Several years ago, a client brought me a box turtle that had been hit by a car. I used fiberglass to repair his broken shell and then released him in my woods. Recently, while walking on my hillside, I spotted an odd pattern in the leaves. To my amazement, there was my old patient with the fiberglass still on... years later! Sometimes, being a vet is the best thing there is.I can imagine that the turtle has spent his time explaining to his buddies that mesh-and-Bondo is a turtle's best friend. And the vet, too, of course.
