Berlin’s city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
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John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
The Mayan calendar started being used.
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.