On This Day in History | | | | ? captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultan's armored elephants. | Pope publishes papal bull "Cum ad nihil magis", introduces the Inquisition into Portugal at Evora, Coimbra and Lisbon. | ?Russian army of Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Ocharov in modern day Ukraine after a 5 month long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War. | | Seconds into the first ever flight of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina. Orville Wright is flying, Wilbur Wright is running alongside. |
| The Wright brothers make the at 10:35 AM, piloted by at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. | Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The royal princes are the latest celebrities to favor headgear that was introduced on this day, the Bowler top hat. | | Welcome to our daily email newsletter . | After some useful feedback we have changed how the daily email looks in your inbox. | It is now sent from “On This Day” and not from me personally. The email address has also changed to info@.... Please update your contacts so you don’t miss an issue. | Kind regards,
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