The world’s largest luxury goods corporation, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), bought jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $16.2 billion.
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The Treaty of Granada was signed, marking the end of the Grenada War, which started in 1482.
The UK approved the first American patent.
A deadly cyclone struck east India killing over 300,000 people and destroying 20,000 ships.
A peasant uprising called the Cudgel War began in Finland.
President John F. Kennedy's funeral was held in Washington, D.C.
