Charles Curtis started his six-year term as the first Native American US Senator.
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French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.
Margaret Thatcher became the first post-war prime minister who was refused a degree.
The New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem 'The Raven.'
The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
A two-stage version of the Saturn I rocket was launched for the first time.
