Foundations were placed on Bedloe’s Island, New York City, to become home of the Statue of Liberty.
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English explorer Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for the British crown.
The Soviet spacecraft Mars 6 was launched.
The world's first lab-grown bovine stem cell burger was consumed in London.
The first traffic lights in the US were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Battle of Tettenhall occurred, where the final major Viking army battled against England and was defeated by a landslide.
