Lisbon earthquake kills between 10,000-100,000.
Colombian peace process
The government of Colombia and FARC rebels signed a ceasefire, officially ending over 50 years of conflict between the two.
1815 AD
Battle of Waterloo. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army commanded by the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army commanded by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Fact 11
Several minutes into the credits, a final Guide entry is shown. This is the “careless words/problem of scale” entry, well known to fans of other incarnations of the Guide.
