The French Revolutionary War began after France declared war on Austria.
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America published the country's first American Dictionary of English Language.
The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
The Battle of Forum Gallorum took place to besiege Julius Caesar's assassin, Decimus Junius Brutus.
The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.
The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.