The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James I.
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The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
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