Saint John I became the Catholic Pope.
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John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Berlin's city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
