Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
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Henry VIII declared his marriage to Catherine of Aragon officially null and void, despite Pope Clement VII's refusal to allow it.
At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, 'All That Jazz' and 'Kagemusha' were jointly awarded the Palme d'Or award.
Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundian Faction at the siege of Compiègne.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
South Carolina became the 8th state to join the United States of America.
