Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.
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The computer-animated film 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' premiered in Los Angeles.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito approved plans set forward by his advisors to go to war against the United States of America.
Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
NASA intentionally crashed a Boeing 720 aircraft to test new safety technology.