#tidbits

14 June 2017 Interesting tidbits: 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open

13 June 2017 Interesting tidbits: 1611 - John Fabricius dedicates the earliest sunspot publication. 1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit (not the world's first). 1881 – The USS Jeannette

12 June 2017 Interesting tidbits: 1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, MA. 1840 - Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands. 1849 - The Gas mask was patented by Lewis Haslett of Louisville, Ky.

Interesting tidbits: 1345 - Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners. Trying to bolster his waning power, Apokaukos began a series of proscriptions in

10 June 2017 Interesting tidbits: 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

09 June 2017 Interesting tidbits: 1311 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy. 1628 - The first