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1948

Levee

A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.

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1940

World War II

Second World War: HMS Cambrian was sunk by a mine in The Solent, with the loss of 23 lives.

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1922

Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.

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1914

RMS Aquitania

RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.

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1899

Pearl Hart

Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.

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1866

Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride (cover of score pictured) premiered in Prague.

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1854

Kansas–Nebraska Act

The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.

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1806

List of violent incidents involving Andrew Jackson

In one of several violent incidents involving future U.S. president Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickinson was killed in a duel; Jackson was wounded and carried the bullet for the rest of his life.

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1723

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting the cantata Die Elenden sollen essen in St. Nicholas Church.

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1536

Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.

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