Borwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, about 8 miles north of Lancaster, on the Lancaster Canal. It is just south of the border with Cumbria. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 210. The civil parish also encompasses the village of Tewitfield.

1912 – First Balkan War: Serbian forces defeated the Ottoman army at the Battle of Kumanovo in Vardar Macedonia.

1857 – Sheffield F.C., one of the world's oldest documented non-university football clubs, was founded.

1648 – The second treaty of the Peace of Westphalia, the Treaty of Münster, was signed, ending both the Thirty Years' War and the Dutch Revolt, and officially recognizing the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and Swiss Confederation as independent states.

1260 – The Cathedral of Chartres in Chartres, France (pictured) was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX.

This photo of an iceberg simultaneously shows two physical states of water: as solid (ice) and liquid (seawater). The third state, gas (water vapor), is present but invisible. Additionally, the clouds in the background are droplets of liquid, condensed from water vapor.

... that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia's first government astronomer?

... that the freshwater snail Viviparus georgianus (pictured), the "banded mystery snail", is native to the southeastern U.S. but is an introduced species in the northern U.S. and Canada?

A banker or bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money.

The first modern bank was founded in Italy in Genoa in 1406, its name was Banco di San Giorgio (Bank of St. George).