Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
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At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, 'All That Jazz' and 'Kagemusha' were jointly awarded the Palme d'Or award.
The final episode of LOST aired.
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.
Police killed Bonnie and Clyde.
