Oct 31, 1756: Giacomo Casanova Breaks out of Prison
On January 5, 1757 Giacomo Casanova executed a daring midnight, cross-rooftop escape from "The Leads", Venice's prison, where he had been jailed in solitary confinement for "public outrages against the holy religion".
Experts pore over the Rosetta Stone at the Second International Congress of Orientalists, 1874. Murmur, murmur, murmur...
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July 9, 1594: Barentsz Expedition Encounters its First Polar Bear
On July 9, 1594 on their first expedition to find a Northeast passage, Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz and his crew came across their first polar bear. Unfortunately for the crew, this bear encounter was the first of their many polar bear problems.
