A deadly cyclone struck east India killing over 300,000 people and destroying 20,000 ships.
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The Netherlands granted Suriname independence, and has since been celebrated as Suriname Independence Day.
President John F. Kennedy's funeral was held in Washington, D.C.
The romantic comedic opera 'Marta' premiered in Vienna by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
The Treaty of Granada was signed, marking the end of the Grenada War, which started in 1482.
A peasant uprising called the Cudgel War began in Finland.
