The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
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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).
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.
The world's largest golden nugget was discovered.
