The first manned Moon voyage, the Apollo 8, launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders.
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President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing The Boulder Canyon Project Act, which allowed for the construction of what is known today as the Hoover Dam.
A Mongol horde led by Batu Khan conquered and sacked the Russian city of Ryazan.
The groundbreaking TV soap opera 'Sua Vida Me Pertence' premiered in Brazil.
Antonov An-255 Mriya, the largest airplane in the world, flew for the first time.
Elton John and his partner David Furnish registered their civil partnership at Windsor Town Hall on the first day civil partnerships could legally be performed in England.
