agriculture

The Persian scholar Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas’udi (c. 896-956) is among the first to record the use of simple vertical-shaft windmills in Sistan, Persia.

The first nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) plants are cultivated in Jamestown, Virginia.

Demonstrating against hormone-treated beef, protesters destroy a McDonald’s restaurant in Millau, France.