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- 1619 – Ferdinand II, the King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1789 – With the first use of his new 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus.
- 1987 – Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the tallest structure in North Korea, began.
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