The Philippines gained its independence as a nation after 381 years of colonial rule.
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Huskar Mining Pit, located in Silkstone, England, flooded after heavy rainfall, killing 26 children.
The last slaves in New York were freed.
President Thomas Jefferson announced the Louisiana Purchase to the public.
Lewis Carroll told 10-year-old Alice Liddel a story that was the basis for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'
Scottish geologist James Hutton publicly read his theory on uniformitarianism for the first time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.