The Manchester Ship Canal started its construction in Eastham, England.
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Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed the supernova SN 1572.
Inventor Alan Clark was granted his patent for the telescope.
The first college fraternity, The Flat Hat Society, was formed in the Raleigh Tavern at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
After nearly four and a half years of cataclysmic conflict, World War I ended.
Poland became an independent country.
