The Manchester Ship Canal started its construction in Eastham, England.
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After nearly four and a half years of cataclysmic conflict, World War I ended.
Poland became an independent country.
The first college fraternity, The Flat Hat Society, was formed in the Raleigh Tavern at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time.
Inventor Alan Clark was granted his patent for the telescope.
