President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
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The Thornton Affair, a skirmish between American and Mexican soldiers in Texas, started a chain of events that led to the Mexican-American War.
Porsche was officially added to the commercial register in Germany.
The Chongzhen Emperor died by suicide during a peasant rebellion.
The Discovery Space Shuttle deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit.
The Peloponnesian war came to an end when Admiral Lysander and his Spartan armies defeated their Athenian foes.
