China lifted the country’s ban on literature by Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
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The Boston Bicycle Club was formed, becoming the first cycling club in the United States.
Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the British Conservative Party.
Koalas were listed as endangered for the first time in Australian history.
Argentina canonized its first female saint, Saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa.
Researchers announced that gravitational waves had been discovered.