The first printed edition of the Zohar (Jewish kabbalah) was published.
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The United States of America declared neutrality at the beginning of World War I.
French monk Dom Pierre Pérignon accidentally made champagne.
NASA launched the Phoenix spaceship from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
The Treaty of Sistova was signed, which ended the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.