The first Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, was arrested for high treason in England.
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Martin Luther was almost struck by lightning and became a monk.
'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,' the second book in the series, was published by Bloomsbury in the UK.
North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
A peace agreement was signed between King John of England and Prince Louis VIII of France, marking the end of the Siege of Roche-au-Moine, France.
Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
