The New York Times published its first issue.
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The Teutonic Knights defeated the Polish army in the Battle of Chojnice.
Liechtenstein became the 160th member of the United Nations.
Tiffany & Co was founded by Charles Tiffany and John Young in Brooklyn, Connecticut.
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tebogo were admitted to the United Nations.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.