The Holy Emperor Charles V and King Henry VIII of England became allies against France.
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The BBC broadcast the world's first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the play R.U.R.
The Boston Bicycle Club was formed, becoming the first cycling club in the United States.
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.
Argentina canonized its first female saint, Saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa.
