Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
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Greece legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, becoming the first Orthodox Christian Country to do so.
Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization.
The silent movie 'IT,' directed by Clarence G. Badger and Josef von Sternberg, was released in the US.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
A trade union was founded that later became the current British Labor Party.
