1487: Ten-year-old imposter Lambert Simnel is crowned as “Edward VI” at Dublin. It doesn’t work, and he will find himself with a job as a turnspit in King Henry VII’s kitchen.1543: Canon lawyer Nicolaus Copernicus dies, willing his papers, including
Today in history—January 12
1729: Philosopher and member of Parliament Edmund Burke is born at Dublin.1822: The man who will develop the first commercially successful internal combustion engine, Jean-Joseph-Étienne Lenoir, is born at Mussy-la-Ville, Belgium.1885: Canal and railroad engineer John Bloomfield Jervis, the man