At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, “All That Jazz” and “Kagemusha” were jointly awarded the Palme d’Or award.
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A fire broke out in the Britannia Bridge in North Wales.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
Blizzard released its first shooter game, Overwatch, for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
The first satellite launched by the US, the Explorer 1, stopped transmitting data.
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
