1121 - Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi
1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam
1851 - American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine
1883 - The last quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1908 - Henry Ford…
