A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
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The Armenian-Turkish land border opened for the first time in 35 years.
Janet Reno became the first female to be appointed US Attorney General by President Clinton.
A 44 lb lobster was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Researchers announced that gravitational waves had been discovered.
Argentina canonized its first female saint, Saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa.
