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Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)

1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville, Kentucky, of $14,000

1890 - German Emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

1900 - US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an 'open door' policy in China have essentially accepted his stand.

1917 - After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war in inevitable

1933 - Dachau, 1st Nazi concentration camp, completed

1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"

2012 - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down

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