On this day in the year 41 of the common era Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula to the curial throne, making him the fourth Roman Emperor after the latter's assassination by officers of the Praetorian Guard, and the first to be proclaimed emperor by the military rather than the senate. He governed for thirteen years until he was poisoned by his wife Agrippina.
Claudius expanded the empire into Britain, North Africa and the Middle East; he was the last known speaker and translator of the Etruscan language, he was an effective and scholarly administrator who improved the judicial system and infrastructure of the empire, its provinces and protectorates.
On this day in the year 1764 CE, a fire at Harvard University destroys governor Winthrop's Telescope; the Harvard library consisting of 5,000 books is mostly lost.
In the year 1890 CE the world's oldest wooden sculpture is discovered in a peat bog near Kaltay, Russia in the Ural mountains. The Shigir Idol was radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years old; twenty-three years later Franz Kafka stops working on Amerika…it will never be finished. Twenty-two years after that, sales of Krueger’s Cream Ale begin in Richmond, Virginia…the first canned beer.
In 1958 CE After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, two photons are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in the first example of man-made nuclear fusion; fourteen years later Japanese Sergeant ShÅichi Yokoi is found hiding in the jungles of Guam, where he had been observing his duty and keeping vigilant watch since the end of World War II, not knowing that it had ended. Twelve years after that Apple unveils the Macintosh personal computer in a Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott.
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