Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published in the UK and Canada.
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The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature.
Mississippi was admitted to the Union, making it the 20th American state.
The First Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to the Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.
