The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
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The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
The government executed a group of Japanese Catholic Christians (known as the 26 Martyrs) as they were deemed too dangerous to Japan's way of life.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).
The world's largest golden nugget was discovered.
The general interest family magazine Reader's Digest was first published.
