Thomas J Martin patented the fire extinguisher.
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Sir Henry Thompson conducted the UK's first cremation on the corpse of Mrs. Jeannette C. Pickersgill.
Driving tests were introduced in the UK for the first time.
The first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
The US tested the TX-17 thermonuclear bomb for the first time in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands.
East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan, forming Bangladesh.
