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1819 – As a result of the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. Proving once again that buying property is always a good investment. 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many five and dime Woolworth stores. More at: History
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. 1808 – With no declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country, Finland, to Russia. 1848 – Karl…
