US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama amid warnings from China.
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The first sewing machine was patented in the US.
The first telephone directory was issued, which consisted of a single card with 50 names and addresses in Connecticut, USA.
The USSR's uncrewed Luna 20 lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the Moon.
Russia declared the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent states.
Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first church exclusively for blacks in the US.
