One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
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Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage.
The British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson became Britain's Poet Laureate.
The Great Flood of St Petersburg killed 10,000 people and affected almost half a million more.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
The University of Warsaw, Poland, was founded as a Royal University following the Partitions of Poland.