Charles Curtis started his six-year term as the first Native American US Senator.
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Margaret Thatcher became the first post-war prime minister who was refused a degree.
Kansas entered the Union, making it the 34th state to join the United States of America.
French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.
Missing Malaysian flight MH370 was announced to have been an accident with no survivors.
One of William Shakespeare's most acclaimed plays, ''Romeo & Juliet" was performed for the first time.
