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.
The world's largest golden nugget was discovered.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
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.
