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Drenthe adopts Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is what we use today
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Pirate legend William Kidd dies.
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Thousands of Europeans were killed due extreme cold.
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Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
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First performing monkey appeared in New York City. The cost was only one cent.
