whattolearntoday: A bit of August 23rd history…79 - Mt Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day
whattolearntoday: A bit of August 23rd history…79 - Mt Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England (pictured)1793 - The French National Convention adopts the levee en masse, conscripting all able bodied men between 18 & 25 for military service during the French Revolution1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf2007 - Hashtag invented and 1st used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina2013 - UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre2017 - World’s driest place, the Atacama Desert in Chile, blooms after an unexpected rainfall -- source link