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2015

Picasso’s painting “Les Femmes d’Alger” sold for 179.3 million (US) at Christie’s in New York. A record.

Launch of the euro, the single European currency.

World chess champion Garry Kasparov loses a match for the first time to a computer, Deep Blue, created by IBM.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats,” based on a text by T. S. Eliot and directed by Trevor Nunn, premieres in London’s West End.

B.F. Goodrich invents the tubeless tire.

Mercedes-Benz is founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, who merge their two companies.

The Canadian Commercial Exchange is founded; it later becomes the Montreal Exchange.

The Diamond Sutra, the oldest surviving book, is printed in China and produced in scroll form.

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