The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
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Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
One of the biggest heists in Japan occurred.
Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
