Canada no longer accepted US silver coins as legal tender in the country.
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The Battle of Formigny came to an end as France defeated the last English forces.
Aretha Franklin, who died August 16, 2018, won the Pulitzer Prize.
President Abraham Lincoln died.
NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with a small communication satellite.
Under the command of Gustavus Adolphus, Swedish forces defeated the Holy Roman Empire's armies in the Battle of Rain.