The University of Greifswald was founded in Germany. It was the second university in continental Northern Europe.
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Thomas Edison filed his patent for the Optical Phonograph.
Nine regicides of King Charles I were sentenced to death.
Iran attempted to create the world's largest sandwich at 1,500 meters long but failed due to a crowd eating it before it was measured.
Infamous gangster, Al Capone, was convicted of income tax evasion.
The US population reached 300 million people.
