1590: Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1900: Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel’s laws of genetics
1900: US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1943: World War II: Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”
2013: Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People’s Republic of China
Source: Onthisday.com
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