On this day:
1707: Last eruption of Mount Fuji
1773: Boston Tea Party of the American Revolution
1971: End of Indo-Pakistani War
1991: Kazakhstan independence. It was the last Soviet republic to declare its independence.
Born on this day:
1775: Jane Austen, English author
Gone on this day:
1515: Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese Admiral
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