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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Pope Anterus: Martyr for Faith & Symbol of Resistance (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)

8 min • 21 november 2023

A Daily Dose of History (21 Nov 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
  • Lý Công Uẩn is enthroned as emperor of Đại Cồ Việt, founding the Lý dynasty.
  • Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.
  • The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
  • In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
  • North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
  • American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
  • Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
  • Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.

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