The US celebrated the opening of the country’s first railroad station in Baltimore.
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The distress signal 'CQD' was established.
The first US commercial bank, The Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.
A 57-year-old man received the first transplanted heart from a genetically modified pig.
Akihito succeeded his father to become the 125th Emperor of Japan.
French forces attacked Calais and took it back from English rule.
