Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States of America.
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Income tax was introduced in the UK so that prime minister William Pitt could collect funds to beat Napoleon.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-32.
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Jean Pierre Blanchard flew the first hot air balloon in the US.
During the Black Death persecutions, 700 Jews were burned alive in their own homes in Basel, Netherlands.
