The general interest family magazine Reader’s Digest was first published.
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Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.
The vice president of Google, Susan Wojcicki, became the CEO of YouTube.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).
