The first edition of The Standard was published in London.
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The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex marriage.
The Royal Canadian Air Force was formed out of the Canadian Air Force.
The lost Roman city of Pompeii was rediscovered by a Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan began.
Bonnie and Clyde shot two highway patrolmen outside Grapevine, Texas.
