Pick one to tell someone else. No cheating. One only. Which will it be? Why will it be that one?
480 BC The Battle of Salamis in which the Athenians defeated the Persians. Themistocles’s proclamation is on display in Athens. Saw it in 2007.
1863 Georges Bizet’s ‘Les pêcheurs de perles’ (The Pearl Fishers) opened in Paris and has not closed since. Been to that Opera House.
1903 The land of Prussia required licenses for automobile drivers. Got one myself, but not from Prussia most of which is now in Russia and Poland. The Kaiser went on a picnic.
1982 The Tylenol murders in Chicago which remains a cold case, and which led to the tamperproof packaging of medicines in blister packs and more. The first six victims.
1997 The link was established between mad cows and people in England.
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