- Here i am. My pc finally died. Each time i putted it on, the fan starts sounding like a jet engine and starts beeping loudly.
Guess I will get it checked out soon.
Guess I will get it checked out soon.
1851, yeah i just asked them. They seem really chill about so it’s fine
1852
Is it OK to but in to this thread?
Nope. But now is too late. I’ve already contacted my peers in Beijing. Expect to make a few Uyghur Chinese friends soon.
For some reason wikipedia lists Jan 6th of 1854 as Sherlock Holmes’s birthday, according to the NY times
The Crimean war picks up, with the UK and France declaring war on Russia.
An epidemic of cholera in London kills over 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology
(John Snow’s map, showing the location of cholera cases, 1854)
In Egypt, the Suez Canal Company is formed. The company would manage the Suez until 1997, 139 years.
Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam dies
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The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
American Civil War: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.
Abraham Lincoln defeats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell, and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
Beijing’s Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin, in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war, during the Second Opium War.
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