When I take a break from selling Silicon Valley homes, I enjoy learning new things. Here are 6 Fascinating Facts From November 4 you may not know, courtesy ofwww.wikipedia.org .
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The treasures of King Tut will become world famous.
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever recorded observation of tool usage in non-human animals.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
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