1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, or Shelley once she got married, authoress, assembled out of genetic parts, today
1800: Gabriel, an African-American "bondsman", assembled an army of fellow "zero-hours migrant workers" near Richmond, Virginia, in the first major slave rebellion in
U.S. history; alerted government officials thwarted the revolt, and Gabriel and
others were executed.
1918: Soviet
leader Vladimir Lenin was
shot twice in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
2015: British neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, who once mistook his daughter's engagement party for a Rabbinical lecture platform (oh no, sorry, that was Jonathan Sacks)... this was the psychologist who wrote about patients he had known with some very unusual neurological disorders... died in New York, aged 82.
2021: The last US and UK troops finally left Afghanistan, somewhat chaotically but this was actually the best they had managed in decades, some seven years after the war in that country had officially ended, and about a hundred and fifty after it should never have begun (which, like Dunkerque, is a euphemisitic way of saying that it took that long to finally admit defeat and put the tail between the legs)
