The first printed edition of the Zohar (Jewish kabbalah) was published.
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The United States of America declared neutrality at the beginning of World War I.
A galaxy named 'Dwingeloo 1' was discovered to be just 10 million light-years from our own.
Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
French inventor Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on a hoverboard.
The Treaty of Sistova was signed, which ended the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.