1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henri 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 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel’s laws of genetics
1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”
1958 South Africa’s government prohibits the African National Congress
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