Michelangelo’s famous painting “Christ of the Woman of Samaria” was sold for a staggering $7.4 million.
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Digging began to make way for the construction of the Eiffel Tower, Paris.
The United States Coast Guard was formed by an act passed by the US Congress.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was first published in the UK.
Honeybees stung Johannes Relleke a world record 2,443 times in Zimbabwe.
The world's largest snowflake measuring 15 inches wide by 8 inches thick, was discovered in a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana.
