Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
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MP's in the UK voted in favor of triggering the European Union Bill (Article 50), which gave the government the power to prepare to leave the European Union.
Voice of America, the US' official external radio and television service, began broadcasting.
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi was removed from power by a military coup d'état.
NBC-TV premiered ''Late Night with David Letterman."
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
