The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Wolfgang Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo' premiered at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Germany.
Kansas entered the Union, making it the 34th state to join the United States of America.
Charles Curtis started his six-year term as the first Native American US Senator.
French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.
The New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem 'The Raven.'