1640 - English Long Parliament forms
1883 - US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1930 - Bank of Italy is renamed the Bank of America
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