Van’s opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
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Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Plymouth colony.
