A bit of September 21st history…
1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he has killed the Beast of Gevaudan
1792 - French Revolution:The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolishment of the French monarchy. King Louis the 16th is executed the next January (pictured)
1827 - According to Joseph Smith Jr, the angel Moroni, gave him a record of gold plates, 1/3 of which he translated into the Book of Mormon
1895 - America’s 1st automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon company, is founded
1937 - J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is published
2016 - 3 genetic studies published in Nature conclude a non - Africans descended from 1 migration out of Africa 50-80,000 years ago
2016 - Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pledge $3 billion to medical research to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century
2016 - Genomic study finding Australian Aboriginal oldest known civilization on earth
2018 -Fossil of Dickinsonia, “The Holy Grail of Paleontology”, proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old, from White Sea, Russia
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