This Day In History
- 1692 The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
- 2009 Americans Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel economics prize for her groundbreaking research showing that ordinary people can create rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1799 Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
- Military
- 1915 On the morning of October 12, 1915, the 49-year-old British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium for helping British and French prisoners-of-war, as well as Belgians hoping to serve with the Allied forces, to escape Belgium for neutral Holland.
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