Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed in South Korea.
Sixty-eight lives were lost, and there were a total of 48 survivors.
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New York became the 11th state to join the United States of America.
The opera 'Parsifal' by Richard Wagner premiered in Bayreuth, Germany.
In one day, Facebook lost $120 billion in value on the stock market.
The US Postal Service was founded.
President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act.