Jefferson Davis becomes the president of the Confederacy, Pluto is discovered, a cow flies, the first Church of Scientology is formed, the Chicago Seven are found not guilty, and Dale Earnhardt dies at the Daytona 500, all on this day.
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1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time. It had previously been published in Europe and Canada on Dec. 10, 1884.