John Bellingham was sentenced to death for assassinating Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister.
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The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
The Worms massacre began.
India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
Britain declared war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continued interfering in Italy and Switzerland.
