Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.
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Charles Darwin explored Bahia, San Salvador, Brazil, and fell in love with its variety of plants, flowers, animals & insects.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
A Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes announced he was able to create solid helium.
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
