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1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
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One Day in History was a single-day initiative by several UK heritage organisations that aimed to provide a historical record of the everyday life of the British public in the early 21st century. Described as the "world's biggest blog ", [ 1 ] it encouraged UK citizens to write diary entries of 100–650 words of what they had done on 17 ...
1807 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898) 1837 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, and politician (d. 1920) 1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938) 1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968) 1904 - Paul Hartman, American actor (d ...
1377 – Gregory XI, the last Avignon pope, entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon, returning the papacy to its original city.; 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen LiliÊ»uokalani (pictured).
Events. 1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.; 1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
Events. 1778 – Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, diverting British attention, troops, and supplies from the American Revolutionary War.; 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly–bought territory of Florida from Spain.
On this day he left Fort Pitt and took up residence in Sandusky, Ohio. March 29 (1825) Return J. Meigs, Jr. , a pioneer Indian fighter, first chief justice of Ohio, governor during the War of 1812 , and the man for whom Megis County is named after, dies in Marietta, Ohio at age 60.