1558 Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen "Bloody" Mary 1800 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building 1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia 1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe 1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas 1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship 1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse | 
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