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.
German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time.
Canada's second-largest city, Montreal, started dumping untreated waste in the Saint Lawrence River.
Daniel McCree patented the portable fire escape in the US.
Christopher Columbus discovered Sint Maarten in the West Indies.
