England and France declared war on Austria’s Emperor, Charles V.
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Lady Macbeth by Dmitri Shostakovich was performed for the first time in Leningrad, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
A record $20 to $50 million worth of gold bars were stolen in a bank robbery in Beirut, Lebanon.
Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
NASA revealed water vapor had been discovered on dwarf planet Ceres.
