War of the World’s played on the radio, and residents in Quito, Ecuador, believed they were being attacked by Martians.
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USA's men's hockey team beat Canada's for the first time in 12 years.
The Soviet Union exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Price in Literature winner.
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