The Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, is a medieval church in Anglesey, Wales. The first church on the site was established in the 7th century by St Nidan, the confessor of the monastery at Penmon, Anglesey; the oldest parts of the present structure date from the 14th century. In about 1500 a second nave was added, and an arcade (pictured) was built between the two naves. Between 1839 and 1843 a new church was built nearby, partly due to the cost of repairing St Nidan's. A sandstone chest containing bone fragments (which local tradition holds to be those of St Nidan) and a 13th-century font were relocated to the new church. Much of the old church was demolished, leaving part of the western end and the central arcade. It has been restored and is occasionally open to the public. The remaining parts of the church are a Grade II* listed building. In the 12th century, Gerald of Wales said that the church possessed a curious stone shaped like a thigh that would always return by the next day no matter how far away it was taken. A Norman earl, he said, had chained it to a large rock and thrown it into the sea, only for the stone to return to the church by the following morning.

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1565:

Rio de Janeiro (Christ the Redeemer statue pictured) was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro

1633:

Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain

1872:

Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, the first national park in the world, was established. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park

1950:

In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs

1979:

Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

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