Happy Labor Day!
On this day in 717, the Siege of Constantinople ends with the defeat of the Muslim Armada by the Byzantines, achieved through the use of Greek fire.
In 1902, Georges Melies releases A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, in France.
In 1952, The Old Man and the Sea, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
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