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On this day in 1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England. In 1540 the Society of Jesus (AKA the Jesuits) received its charter from Pope Paul III. In 1777 Lancaster, Pennsylvania was the capital of the United States, for one day. In 1822 Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone. In 1825 the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, was ceremonially opened. In 1905 the physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². In 1962 Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency. In 1964, the Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. In 1968 the stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. In 2003 the SMART-1 satellite was launched. In 2007 NASA launched the Dawn probe. IN2008 CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7. In 2016 NASA Voyager is 18 hrs 55 mins 15 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:271:120000:1L)
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