A Daily Dose of History (21 Oct 2024)

Today's historical events:

• A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
• First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
• Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
• Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
• The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
• In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
• Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Portland cement is patented.
• Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
• American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.

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