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1807: Baron Stein, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia, issued a decree on the emancipation of serfs from personal dependency and the cessation of corvée labor, known as the 'October Edict'. 1824: Costa Rica abolished slavery. 1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias, Head of State of Greece, was assassinated in Nafplio. 1845: John Henry Newman, an Anglican priest, along with several students, left the Church of England and converted to Roman Catholicism. 1854: Hu Youlu and Zhu Hongying, leaders of the Tiandihui in Guangxi, occupied Guanyang and established the 'Shengping Heavenly Kingdom', using the reign title 'Taiping Tiande'. 1874: The Universal Postal Union was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern, aiming to unify various postal services and regulations to facilitate the exchange of international mail. 1888: The Washington Monument in Washington D.C., USA, was officially opened to the public. 1911: Chinese revolutionaries, while planning an uprising in the Hankou Russian concession, had their firearms accidentally discharge, leading to the exposure of their plot. They were forced to advance their uprising to the next day, which became the fuse for the Wuchang Uprising. 1912: The First Balkan War broke out. 1914: World War I: The German Empire's army occupied the port city of Antwerp in the Kingdom of Belgium. 1934: King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou were assassinated by gunmen outside the Marseille Stock Exchange. The assassins were surrounded by an enraged crowd after the act and beaten to death.