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1822 – The state of Florida is established in the United States.
1841 – The National Bank of Greece is established in Athens.
1842 – American physician Crawford Long uses anesthesia in surgical procedures for the first time.
1856- A peace treaty was signed that ended the Crimean War between Russia on the one hand and England, France and the Ottoman Empire on the other.
1863-Danish Prince Wilhelm Georg, in the name of George I, King of Greece, was chosen as King of Greece.
1867-America buys Alaska from the Russian Empire for $2.7 million.
1870 – An amendment was made to the US Constitution, granting African-Americans the right to vote.
1889 – Completion of the construction of the Eiffel Tower in the French capital, Paris.
1907 – Aircraft production begins in the first factory in France, founded by the brothers Gabriel and Charles Voisin in 1906.
1930-Italian General Rodolfo Graziani arrives in Libya as its military ruler.
1955 – The United Kingdom joins the Baghdad Pact and signs a treaty with Iraq.
1966 – The French government notifies the United States that American bases in France must be closed within 12 months.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan survives an assassination attempt after being shot in the lung by John Hinckley Jr.
1991- The abolition of apartheid in South Africa.
Born today..
1746 – Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter.
1853 – Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch painter.
Of the deaths today..
1949 – Friedrich Bergius, a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931.
1965 – Philip Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1950.
Holidays and events..
Palestinian Land Day.
National Doctors Day in the United States.
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