Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
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The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
