1618 Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years' War. 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator") 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones 1958 Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes. | 
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