US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, “There never was a good war or a bad peace,” in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
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Janet Parker became the last person to die of smallpox in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
The Destruction of Santiago occurred when the Spanish conquistadors and the Mapuche-Picunche tribes had a confrontation.
Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
The English were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.