A six-day siege began in London when an IRA unit took a couple hostage in their flat while fleeing the police.
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Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed.
A first edition of 'The Birds of America' by John James Audubon was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250 ($10 million) – which took the record for any book at auction.
Scientists discovered the most distant supermassive black hole.
Spanish conquistadors founded the city of Quito.
