Louis XV succeeded his great-grandfather and became King of France at the young age of five.
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The United States of America founded Space Command (SPACECOM), the first of its kind in the US Armed Forces.
German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the 3 Juno asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.
Blacksmith, Patrick Lyon stole $162,821 in cash and gold from a vault at the Bank of Pennsylvania.
Over 400 people died in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
Mozart published the Haydn Quartets in Vienna.
