The One World Trade Center opened on the original World Trade Center site.
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The International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selected 'SOS' (· · · – – – · · ·) as the global standard for radio distress calls.
Political activist and French playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
The parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, granting the monarch complete control of the Church of England.
The Times of India was founded, making it the largest English-language newspaper in the world.