1568: Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace
1865: Columbia, South Carolina, burns down during American Civil War
1876: Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
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”
Source: Onthisday.com
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