Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
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The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
Mississippi was admitted to the Union, making it the 20th American state.
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict, demanding that he recant.
The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
