In 1606, the trial in London of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators began, for their “Gunpowder Plot, the previous November 5th.
In 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born, in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1832, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Cheshire, England.
In 1880, Thomas Edison filed a patent for an electric incandescent lamp. Much as I [...]