Turkmenistan declared independence from the Soviet Union.
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NASA's Saturn I rocket was tested for the first time in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
The first successful operation of conjoined twins joined at the head was completed in New Delhi, India.
ABC premiered Walt Disney's first TV show, 'Disneyland.'
Englishman William Penn founded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
US President Woodrow Wilson announced the country would never fight another country for territory again.