Uganda Ministry of Health announced they were under an outbreak of a Marburg virus, a virus similar to Ebola.
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The American Revolutionary War hostiles ended after the British conceded at Yorktown.
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Germany's oldest university, and one of the world's oldest surviving universities, The Universität Heidelberg, held a lecture for the first time.
University of California scientists found evidence that life on Earth probably began 4.1 billion years ago.