Cellular mobile phone service was made available to the American public for the first time.
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A painting called 'Abstraktes' by Gerhard Richter sold for a record $34 million.
The American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan posthumously won a Nobel prize in literature.
Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy.
The US government began its trade embargo against Cuba.
All 33 miners trapped after a mining accident in Chile were rescued after being stuck underground for 69 days.