On this day in history...
Jerusalem is captured in the First Crusade in 1099
The Bastille is stormed in 1789.
Mariner 4 flies by Mars in 1965 and sends back pictures.
Also On This Day...
Five ships with 1200 people set sail from Leith for Panama in 1698. There expedition is funded with perhaps a fifth of all portable wealth of Scotland. Hoping to capitalize on the short overland distance between the two oceans Pacific and Atlantic the colony seeks to become a trading hub. Upon arrival the cut a canal across the Isthmus of Darien.
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