Yes, today is my birthday. But before everyone gets all excited, slaughtering cattle and shooting pistols in the air, let us take stock of the other important things to happen on this day in history.
1718 – Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard the Pirate, was killed off the coast of N. America
1906 – SOS was adopted as a radio distress signal by the International…
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