1654
L'Etat, c'est moi
Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
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1494
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.
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1776
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.
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1892
Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
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1929
Vatican City became a sovereign state.
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1948
President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
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1967
Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
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2003
Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
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