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The final significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, where the forces of Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III, who was killed in the battle. This ended the Plantagenet dynasty and established the Tudor dynasty with Henry VII as king of England.
The Cadillac automobile company was established in Detroit by Henry M. Leland. It would become a premier luxury automobile brand and was a key early player in the standardization of automotive parts, influencing mass production.
Irish revolutionary and Chairman of the Provisional Government Michael Collins was killed in an ambush by anti-Treaty forces at Béal na Bláth during the Irish Civil War. His death was a major turning point in the conflict and Irish history.
Mathematicians discovered the first known perfect magic square, a panmagic square with additional properties, using a computer search. A perfect magic square of order 8 was found, a significant achievement in the field of recreational mathematics.
Armed robbers stole Edvard Munch's iconic paintings 'The Scream' and 'Madonna' from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in broad daylight. Both paintings were recovered two years later, though slightly damaged.