Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
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Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
Mississippi was admitted to the Union, making it the 20th American state.
The first Lord of the Rings film installment, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in London.
