Boston became the first American city to have a town meeting.
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President Warren G. Harding became the first president to pay taxes in the US.
Finland became the world's happiest country.
Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao broke a world record by calculating Pi right down to 31.4 trillion digits!
US president Bill Clinton tore his knee and required surgery.
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
