The first Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, was arrested for high treason in England.
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North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,' the second book in the series, was published by Bloomsbury in the UK.
Martin Luther was almost struck by lightning and became a monk.
Inventor Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in England.
