J.C. Penney’s opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.
America published the country's first American Dictionary of English Language.
The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
