On this date in 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light bulb in a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
On this date in 1066, William the Conqueror and his fleet of approximately 600 ships arrived at Pevensey, Sussex, England, thus beginning the “Norman conquest.”
On this date in 1928, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed that a bacteria-killing mold was growing in his laboratory.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
