Boston became the first American city to have a town meeting.
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Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao broke a world record by calculating Pi right down to 31.4 trillion digits!
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
Identical twins were no longer identical after one returned from a mission to space.
Beyoncé won her 28th Grammy Award, breaking the world record for most Grammys won by an artist.
Anne Miller became the first American patient to be treated with penicillin.
