Today in History (May 3)

🔴 1621 After confessing to corruption, Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon is sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London, a large £40,000 fine and banishment from court, Parliament and public office

🔴 1810 English poet Lord Byron swims across the dangerous Hellespont Strait in Turkey (modern day Dardanelles)

🔴 1915 Canadian poet and physician John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields" at Ypres on the Western Front

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