The musical “Chicago” opened at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City.
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Nellie Bly, a pioneering female journalist, embarked on a trip to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
Dr. Fritz Derom performed a successful single-lung transplantation on patient Aloïs Vereecken at the University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Kaikōura, New Zealand.
Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' was published by Harper & Brothers in New York.
German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet sighted using a telescope.
