The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation’s first federal agency, was established.
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The first recorded example of having to 'quarantine' was written by The Ragusan Republic.
Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
