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1566 - Calvinists were granted rights in the Netherlands
1821 - Mexico gained its independence from Spain
1833 - Slavery was abolished in the British colonies
1966 - NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the distance of the Moon
1976 - A major earthquake in China killed thousands of people.

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