Mississippi was admitted to the Union, making it the 20th American state.
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Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
King Berger of Sweden celebrated Christmas with his brothers before throwing them in his dungeons to die.
Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.
