China lifted the country’s ban on literature by Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
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Janet Reno became the first female to be appointed US Attorney General by President Clinton.
A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
Researchers announced that gravitational waves had been discovered.
A 44 lb lobster was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Holy Emperor Charles V and King Henry VIII of England became allies against France.
