Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina’s first elected female president.
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The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
The first Lord of the Rings film installment, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in London.
