Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
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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.
One of the biggest heists in Japan occurred.
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
