1497 John Cabot claims parts of North America (what is now Eastern Canada) for England believing he has found Asia in Newfoundland 1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London 1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River 1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) 1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris 1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. 2022 US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote | 
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