The Peloponnesian war came to an end when Admiral Lysander and his Spartan armies defeated their Athenian foes.
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President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
Porsche was officially added to the commercial register in Germany.
Francis Crick & James Watson's discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA was formally announced.
The Discovery Space Shuttle deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit.
A highwayman, Nicolas Pelletier, was the first man to be executed by the guillotine in Paris, France.