President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
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A highwayman, Nicolas Pelletier, was the first man to be executed by the guillotine in Paris, France.
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.
Nicaragua elected its first-ever female President, Violeta Chamorro.
The Chongzhen Emperor died by suicide during a peasant rebellion.
