Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
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A Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes announced he was able to create solid helium.
The UK's Prince Harry was withdrawn from a military tour of Afghanistan.
The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
