I cant believe I ate the whole thing!
fuck the format, this meme is like most others and designed to make you feel like you are born on an important date in history...
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
Birth
1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)
Death
1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)