Sandwich restaurant Subway was founded in Bridgeport, Connecticut, US.
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The Slave Abolition Act was passed and came into effect the following year on August 1.
British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
Tokyo celebrated the country's first LGBTQ+ pride parade.
An F5 max rating tornado smashed through Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 people, injuring 353, and causing $165 million in damages.
Nature magazine published findings of a 3.8-million-year-old skull found in Ethiopia, which questioned our previous theories of human evolution.
