Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
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The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was 'Feminism.'
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
The Beatles signed on with their first formal manager, Brian Epstein.
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
New Zealand made history by passing the world’s first tobacco ban.