Hundreds of people died after a New England Blizzard.
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All of London's Jews (approx. 680) were accused and arrested for coin clipping and counterfeiting.
The Ottoman Empire ended when the last Sultan Mehmed VI was exiled to Malta on a British warship.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony was performed for the first time in St Petersburg, Russia.
This day marked the beginning of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 became the first robotic lunar rover to land on the Moon's surface.