The British Labour Party was founded.
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Henry IV took to the throne as he was crowned the King of France.
In Sweden, a job interview invitation was accidentally mailed to 61,000 people and caused chaos in their offices.
The twenty-second amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.
Scientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.
Two scientists from the University of California Radiation Laboratory discovered carbon-14, a new isotope of carbon.