Quebec held a referendum on whether to begin negotiations with Canada to become independent.
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The Pictish armies of King Bridei Mac Bili won a decisive victory over the armies of Northumbria at the Battle of Dun Nechtain.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
After decades of failed attempts to reach the Indies, Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, India.
