Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
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The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.
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