A 7.8 earthquake hit Flores Island in Indonesia, which caused an 82-foot tsunami, killing about 2,500 people.
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Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, premiered in New York.
Mexico was officially recognized as an independent nation by the US.
Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
Arthur Ashe became the first black person to be ranked number one in tennis.
Adolf Hitler declared the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
