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350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of Magnentius, in Rome. 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the…
1659 – A Russian army, led by Prince Trubetskoy, is defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop. 1683 – Quaker William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the ‘Type-Writer’. 1894 –…
