The Manchester Ship Canal started its construction in Eastham, England.
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Christopher Columbus discovered Sint Maarten in the West Indies.
Inventor Alan Clark was granted his patent for the telescope.
After nearly four and a half years of cataclysmic conflict, World War I ended.
NASA launched the Gemini program's tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
Pope Innocent III brought together the council for the Fourth Council of the Lateran, which was held at the Lateran Palace in Rome, Italy.
