Germany first observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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A patent for his electric lamp invention was given to Thomas Edison.
Scottish schoolmaster Dr. John Fian who had 'a pact with the devil,' was found guilty of witchcraft.
Leningrad's siege by Germans ended in the wake of 650,000 perished citizens.
The Vietnam War officially ended, for the US at least, after the Paris Peace Accords were signed.
The first of 126 nuclear tests started at the Nevada Test Site.
