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Pope Anterus: Martyrdom & Faith in Persecution (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)
- 2024/11/21
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A Daily Dose of History (21 Nov 2024) 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. Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in Paris. The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeat the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39-0, in the first-ever professional American football night game. Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash). Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices