The US and Britain signed the Lyons-Seward Treaty.
The Treaty was an agreement to suppress the trading of slaves.
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King Kamehameha III of Hawaii signed the Declaration of Rights, which was a significant movement away from the country's 'ancient ways.'
The Day of the Tiles took place.
The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
