The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago.
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London opened the world's first public flushing toilets.
A polygraph test was conducted by its inventor, Leonarde Keeler, for the first time.
Forty mummies were discovered and unearthed in Tuna el-Gebel, South Cairo, Egypt.
'The Way We Were' by Barbra Streisand reached number one on the Billboard 100 charts.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a US National Reconnaissance Office payload into orbit.
