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1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI decrees in the papal bull "Inter caetera" that all lands west of a line 100 leagues west of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands belong to Castile, ultimately dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal
1861 - At Gretna, Louisiana, one of the first guns for the Confederate Navy is cast
1910 - Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy
1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1975 - Italian film "Seven Beauties" directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, and Shirley Stoler released - first film directed by a women to be nominated for an Academy Award
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2018 - LA Angels first baseman Albert Pujols collects his 3,000th MLB hit in a 5-0 win v Mariners in Seattle

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