The American Declaration of Independence was publicly released in the Pennsylvania Evening Post.
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Pirate Captain Kidd was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
The first successful rabies vaccine was successfully tested on a 9-year-old boy in France.
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to 6 years in prison for murder.
The Nigerian Civil War began when Nigerian troops invaded Biafra.
The Soviet Union started mass producing the AK-47 assault rifle.
