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15 April 1071<\/h3>\n
After a long siege, Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, falls to the Normans.<\/p>\n

15 April 1469<\/h3>\n
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is born in the village of Talwandi near Lahore in present-day Pakistan.<\/p>\n

15 April 1450<\/h3>\n
At the battle of Formigny, the French destroyed an English force under Sir Thomas Kyriell which had been sent across the Channel in a vain attempt to halt the French reconquest of Normandy.<\/p>\n

15 April 1641<\/h3>\n
Physician and geographer Sir Robert Sibbald was born. A co-founder of the botanical garden and the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, he took a great interest in whales. The Blue Whale was once known as Balaenoptera Sibbaldi, after him.<\/p>\n

15 April 1707<\/h3>\n
Birth in Basel of leading 18th century mathematician, Leonhard Euler.<\/p>\n

15 April 1793<\/h3>\n
Faced with a shortage of gold coin, the Bank of England issued its first five-pound notes. Their black-on-white design was to remain essentially unchanged until 1957.<\/p>\n

15 April 1858<\/h3>\n
Emile Durkheim is born in Epinal in eastern France. His work will help to establish sociology as an accepted academic discipline.<\/p>\n

15 April 1071<\/h3>\nAfter a long siege, Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, falls to the Normans.<\/p>\n

15 April 1469<\/h3>\nGuru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is born in the village of Talwandi near Lahore in present-day Pakistan.<\/p>\n

15 April 1450<\/h3>\nAt the battle of Formigny, the French destroyed an English force under Sir Thomas Kyriell which had been sent across the Channel in a vain attempt to halt the French reconquest of Normandy.<\/p>\n

15 April 1641<\/h3>\nPhysician and geographer Sir Robert Sibbald was born. A co-founder of the botanical garden and the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, he took a great interest in whales. The Blue Whale was once known as Balaenoptera Sibbaldi, after him.<\/p>\n

15 April 1707<\/h3>\nBirth in Basel of leading 18th century mathematician, Leonhard Euler.<\/p>\n

15 April 1793<\/h3>\nFaced with a shortage of gold coin, the Bank of England issued its first five-pound notes. Their black-on-white design was to remain essentially unchanged until 1957.<\/p>\n