Manchester Mark I computer became the first stored computer to run a program at a lab at Manchester University, UK.
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Construction on the world's longest railway in Russia was completed.
Burning the US flag was deemed legal.
A Dutch pensions advisor, Johan de Witt, was severely wounded in a knife attack.
King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family fled their home at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Louis St. Laurent resigned as the prime minister of Canada.
