A highwayman, Nicolas Pelletier, was the first man to be executed by the guillotine in Paris, France.
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President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
Nicaragua elected its first-ever female President, Violeta Chamorro.
The Peloponnesian war came to an end when Admiral Lysander and his Spartan armies defeated their Athenian foes.
The Thornton Affair, a skirmish between American and Mexican soldiers in Texas, started a chain of events that led to the Mexican-American War.
Romania and Bulgaria signed the European Union's Treaty of Accession, the last step to joining the Union.
