A highwayman, Nicolas Pelletier, was the first man to be executed by the guillotine in Paris, France.
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The Discovery Space Shuttle deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit.
New York state became the first to require license plates on automobiles.
Romania and Bulgaria signed the European Union's Treaty of Accession, the last step to joining the Union.
The Chongzhen Emperor died by suicide during a peasant rebellion.
The Peloponnesian war came to an end when Admiral Lysander and his Spartan armies defeated their Athenian foes.
