Great Web Page. Everything you want to know about any year.

I stumbled on this web page while looking up events for the year 1916. It gives you an outline of most anything you'd want to know about any year.

http://www.answers.com/topic/2004#science

Sample for 1811, the year my house was built:

population

Napoleon decrees that foundling hospitals in France shall be provided with turntable devices (tours) so that parents can leave unwanted infants without being recognized or questioned. Millions of infants have been drowned, smothered, or abandoned, depriving the French armies of potential recruits.

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Think about it.