Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a fan threw onto the stage during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
The US published its first book on Geology – 'Observations on the Geology of the United States' by William Maclure.
US hostages were released in Iran after 444 days.
'In Old Arizona' became the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors.
