Adolf Hitler offered peace to Great Britain if they would surrender and allow Germany to dominate the country.
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The Great Fire of Rome started when the merchant shops around the Circus Maximus caught fire.
Maurice-François Garin won the first Tour de France.
Due to climate change, a deadly heatwave landed in North-East America.
In Rosetta, Egypt, French troops discovered a black stone carved with two ancient Egyptian texts and one Ancient Greek text.
Five women were hanged for witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, US.
