One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
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The University of Warsaw, Poland, was founded as a Royal University following the Partitions of Poland.
Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage.
Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
The Great Flood of St Petersburg killed 10,000 people and affected almost half a million more.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
