Way back in 1066 today marked the day a fleet of ships left Normandy for Sussex to begin a Norman invasion of English to help put William the Conqueror on the throne.
They would land in Sussex on September 28.
If you want to go abroad (maybe not during a pandemic) this will be the day to do it as it's World Tourism Day.
Chosen in 1970 by the United World Tourism Organization, go out and see the world!
Then, while you're out and about, you'll maybe want to learn a word or two in the language you'll be visiting.
Translating word for word is hard, and the most famous example of that is the Rosetta Stone.
This stone had a decree posted on it in 3 languages, hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek. Since it was found in 1799 people had tried to translate it as a way to understand hieroglyphics... the first person to claim success was Jean Francois Champollion on this day in 1803.
Nowadays we have lots of other ways to learn a new language, even an app called Rosetta Stone, but I hear they're douches - so I use Duolingo instead.
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