The People’s Republic of China launched Shenzhou 1, the first uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft.
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Television broadcasting company CBS banned a Calvin Klein Jeans advertisement.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
The Great Flood of St Petersburg killed 10,000 people and affected almost half a million more.
Pelé, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, scored his 1,000th goal.
The British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson became Britain's Poet Laureate.
