On this day in history
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1602: Dutch East Indian Company forms.
1760: The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1800: Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in Boston.
1815: Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.
1915: Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1933: Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
2016: Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to visit Cuba since 1928.
