Explorer Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, found Dominica and the Kalinago people.
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Political activist and French playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
The One World Trade Center opened on the original World Trade Center site.
Emperor Constantius II was baptized on his deathbed hours before passing.
The parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, granting the monarch complete control of the Church of England.