The first confirmed trip to the North Pole was carried out by the Norge, a semi-rigid Italian-built airship.
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Revolutionary War soldiers formed the Society of St. Tammany.
The first university in the New World, the National University of San Marcos, was founded in Lima, Peru.
National Hospital Day was first observed.
More than 69,000 people lost their lives to a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
One hundred and forty thousand miners went on strike in Pennsylvania.
