Manchester Mark I computer became the first stored computer to run a program at a lab at Manchester University, UK.
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King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family fled their home at the beginning of the French Revolution.
The US Navy claimed the island of Guam, which was previously under Spanish control.
Burning the US flag was deemed legal.
J.K. Rowling published the 5th Harry Potter book 'The Order of the Phoenix.'
A Dutch pensions advisor, Johan de Witt, was severely wounded in a knife attack.