Lord Dunmore promised freedom to every slave who enlisted into the British Army.
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The opera company The Deutsche Opernhaus (now know as Deutsche Oper Berlin) was founded. They opened with a performance of The Deutsche Opernhaus.
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.
