A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
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Japan was founded by its legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
The comic book 'Archie' was first published.
The BBC broadcast the world's first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the play R.U.R.
Argentina canonized its first female saint, Saint María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa.
China lifted the country's ban on literature by Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
