The general interest family magazine Reader’s Digest was first published.
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The government executed a group of Japanese Catholic Christians (known as the 26 Martyrs) as they were deemed too dangerous to Japan's way of life.
Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after two years into his six-year sentence.
The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
