President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
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Nicaragua elected its first-ever female President, Violeta Chamorro.
The Peloponnesian war came to an end when Admiral Lysander and his Spartan armies defeated their Athenian foes.
Francis Crick & James Watson's discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA was formally announced.
Romania and Bulgaria signed the European Union's Treaty of Accession, the last step to joining the Union.
The Chongzhen Emperor died by suicide during a peasant rebellion.
