The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
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Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
King Berger of Sweden celebrated Christmas with his brothers before throwing them in his dungeons to die.
