Janet Reno became the first female to be appointed US Attorney General by President Clinton.
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The Armenian-Turkish land border opened for the first time in 35 years.
Researchers announced that gravitational waves had been discovered.
The comic book 'Archie' was first published.
China lifted the country's ban on literature by Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
