The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
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Sweet rationing during World War II finally came to an end in Britain.
US President Donald Trump was acquitted of impeachment charges by the US Senate.
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
The government executed a group of Japanese Catholic Christians (known as the 26 Martyrs) as they were deemed too dangerous to Japan's way of life.