Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
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One of the biggest heists in Japan occurred.
The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.