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Salem Witch Trials, Neptune Discovered & Einstein's Relativity | Sep 21–27
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Eight people hanged in Salem's final witch trial executions, Einstein rewrites physics from a patent office, and Neptune is found exactly where the math predicted — all this week in history. From Balboa sighting the Pacific to Ford's Model T rolling off the line, this episode spans eight centuries of world-changing moments.
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On September twenty-first, eleven seventy, in Dublin, Ireland, Anglo-Norman forces swept into the Kingdom of Dublin and seized control, dealing a decisive blow to Gaelic rule on the island. It was a military conquest with consequences that would echo for centuries, planting the roots of English involvement in Irish affairs.
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