1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge 1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart 1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps 1917 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4] 1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris 2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union | 
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