Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
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The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
The Civil Marriage Act was introduced, making same-sex marriage legal in Canada.
Mary Queen of Scots received the death sentence from cousin Queen Elizabeth I.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
