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1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.

1776 Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.

1791 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.

1861 In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.

1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.

1864 Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.

1904 The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.

1909 George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.

1912 Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years.

1916 David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister.