Over 400 people died in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
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The world population on Earth passed 3 billion.
Mozart published the Haydn Quartets in Vienna.
Louis XV succeeded his great-grandfather and became King of France at the young age of five.
The United States of America founded Space Command (SPACECOM), the first of its kind in the US Armed Forces.
Jews in Germany over six years old were forced to wear the yellow star of David.
