The general interest family magazine Reader’s Digest was first published.
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US President Donald Trump was acquitted of impeachment charges by the US Senate.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
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.
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
The world's largest golden nugget was discovered.
