The American Motors Corporation, best known for creating the Jeep, was bought out by Chrysler.
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Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda became the last Japanese soldier to surrender, 29 years after WWII ended.
Dutch astronomer Johannes Fabricius discovered sunspots.
Naples, Italy, banned kissing in public.
A five-day blizzard started in the south of England and killed 200 people.
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus recorded his first observation after witnessing a moon eclipse with a distant star.
