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Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24.

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