China lifted the country’s ban on literature by Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
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A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
Argentina canonized its first female saint, Saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa.
Koalas were listed as endangered for the first time in Australian history.
The Holy Emperor Charles V and King Henry VIII of England became allies against France.
A 44 lb lobster was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.