Eventos
The United Nations has
declared 2015 as the
‘International Year of the Soil’A power blackout hit New York.
Power was out for about 25 hours.
There was widespread looting,
unlike the calm of the 1965 blackout.Plastic milk bottles
are introduced.Minnesota's first pheasant
season begins. Ring-necked
pheasants were introduced
to the state from China in 1905.Mass production of
toothbrushes in the U.S. begins.Charles Darwin returned
to England after his 5
year voyage studying flora
and fauna around the world.Jacob Schweppe was born.
A German watchmaker and
amateur scientist. Developed
the first practical and
commercially successful
process for producing
carbonated mineral water.The first Tea is imported to the WestSpanish missionaries planted
the first pomegranate trees
in the New World. From Mexico,
the pomegranate was transported
north to missions in California and Texas.Columbus returned from his
first voyage to the New World.King Edward I of England was born.
King Edward I of England
(1239-1307, ruled 1272-1307).
His coronation feast included
278 bacon hogs, 450 pigs, 440 oxen,
430 sheep and 22,600 hens and capons.Significant famine in Europe
for several years. Planting
seed supplies consumed,
more than half of livestock
died. Disinterred bodies
reportedly eaten in Ireland.
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