Britney Spears’s first single, “Baby One More Time,” was released.
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The world's longest over sea bridge opened in China.
Apple's iPod hit store shelves.
The Smurfs were published for the first time in Spirou magazine in Belgium.
The first major battle of the First English Civil War began near Edge Hill, Warwickshire.
The bank robber John Dillinger and his gang robbed $75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana.
