The vice president of Google, Susan Wojcicki, became the CEO of YouTube.
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Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
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 first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
NASA's Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).