Thomas Jefferson becomes the first secretary of state, the Dachau concentration camp opens, The Beatles release their first album, and the Comet Hale-Bopp does a fly-by, all on this day.
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1622: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a quarter of the colony's population.
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