The first-ever all-female golf tournament was held.
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Income tax was introduced in the UK so that prime minister William Pitt could collect funds to beat Napoleon.
During the Black Death persecutions, 700 Jews were burned alive in their own homes in Basel, Netherlands.
The French Academy of Science announced the first-ever photograph.
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States of America.