Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded appendectomy at St George’s Hospital in London.
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Finland declared its independence from the Russian Empire.
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery.
Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai, at 29,000 square-feet, which is 1/2 the size of a football field.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed.
A six-day siege began in London when an IRA unit took a couple hostage in their flat while fleeing the police.
