1777: King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution

1829: William Austin Burt patents America’s first typewriter, the typographer

1840: Union Act passed by the British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

1944: Bretton Woods Conference ends, establishes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund

1995: Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
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