Historical Events

1762 British troops occupy Manila, Philippines

1799 Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch army defeats British-Russian army

1900 Britain annexes the Orange Free State as the Orange River Colony

1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, killing 425

1946 US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain's Jews about Palestine

Proconsul africanus

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans, on Rusinga Island, Kenya

The Mousetrap

1952 Agatha Christie 's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London

Spartacus

1960 Historical drama film " Spartacus ," directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier , premieres in New York City

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