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1568 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire in exchange for peace. |
1865 Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War. |
1876 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine. |
 | Margaret Thatcher campaigning to stay in Europe during the 1975 referendum |
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1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market. |
2017 Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research journal "GSA Today". |
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A magazine hailed General Charles Napier’s battlefield despatch as the finest since Roman times, but it was in fact the work of a clever schoolgirl. |
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