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Founding of Baghdad: Islamic Hub of Learning (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (30 Jul 2024)
Today's historical events:
Baghdad is founded.
First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time…
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