Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina’s first elected female president.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed.
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
The first Lord of the Rings film installment, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in London.
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
