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★16 Feb 1859
The French government passed a law setting the musical note A4 to a frequency of 435 hertz, in the first attempt to standardize concert pitch.

★02 Sep 1870
Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III in Sedan, France; the Second French Empire collapsed within days.

★23 May 1873
The North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was established to bring law and order to, and assert Canadian sovereignty over, the Northwest Territories.

★13 Jul 1878
At the conclusion of the Congress of Berlin, the major powers in Europe signed the Treaty of Berlin, redrawing the map of the Balkans.

★03 Jun 1892
Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.

★04 Mar 1899
Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing over 400 people, the deadliest natural disaster in Australian history.

★04 Jan 1909
British explorer Aeneas Mackintosh, a member of the Nimrod Expedition, escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.

★28 Nov 1920
Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killed seventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence.

★15 Mar 1921
Talaat Pasha, considered the main perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, was assassinated by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

★13 Sep 1933
Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand.

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