? Japanese poet Matsuo Bash¨ leaves Edo on his epic 150-day journey to Honshu Island in Japan, which he writes about in the literary masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
? US Senate fails to impeach President by one vote
Interior of a packed St. Peter's Basilica in Rome as Joan of Arc is canonized by the Pope
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? Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous , bombing the M?hne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs
? Soviet President and Chinese leader meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift
? Human stem cells are successfully cloned
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