The Great Fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
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Colonel Harland Sanders founded KFC in North Corbin, Kentucky.
Baseball player Roberto Clemente was elected to the Hall of Fame.
The Gay Rights Anti-Discrimination Bill was passed in New York City, US.
The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'
Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars came into alignment. Medieval scholars believed this phenomenon brought forth the Black Death.
