Britney Spears’s first single, “Baby One More Time,” was released.
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English singer-songwriter Adele achieved the record of the first song to get over 1 million downloads in a week with her third studio album 'Hello.'
More than 25,000 people marched down New York's 5th Avenue supporting women's suffrage.
The Smurfs were published for the first time in Spirou magazine in Belgium.
Elton John became the 1,662nd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
God created the world, at least according to Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.