1507 – Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name “America”.
1792 – La Marseillaise is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. It’s kind of like the French national anthem except when they’re singing backup to “Deutschland Uber Alles”.
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness, with new recipes.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. “It’s moving! Tax it!”
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. It was a bloody blunder, rife with individual heroism overwritten by strategic stupidity.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1990 – The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
The bloody Brits could have won. First of all they sailed from Egypt and arrived off of Gallipoli and then realized their supply ships were carrying the wrong ammo. The Turks probably talked about it for weeks. So much for the element of surprise!
They sailed back to Egypt resupplied with the proper ammo, and sailed back to Gallipoli and landed, believe it or not mostly undetected by the Turks. They started the ascent of the heights overlooking the beaches and were within eyesight of the summit when someone suggested that since it was 4 o’clock they must halt the advance and prepare tea. They stopped for tea! When they resumed their advance every Turk in Eurasia had gathered at the summit for target practice. The rest you know.