Today's selected anniversaries: 29th September 2023

Today's selected anniversaries: 29th September 2023

1760:

The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg_Bray_School

1833:

The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence

1940:

During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision

1954:

Twelve countries signed a convention to establish the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE