The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
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British archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
J.B. Sutherland from Detroit patented refrigerated railroad cars.
The last Concorde to ever fly made a lap of honor over the English channel.
The United States exhibited the country's first-ever lion in Boston.