Coca-Cola launched their ill-fated new formula known unofficially as “New Coke.”
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President Bill Clinton declared this day as the National Day of Mourning.
The first Canadian postage stamp went into circulation.
English poet William Shakespeare died at the age of 52.
The Soviet Union launched the first crewed Soyuz mission, Soyuz 1.
German bombers attacked the English city of Exeter, beginning the Baedeker Blitz.
