America banned all advertisements of cigarettes on TV and radio.
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A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.
The Julian Calendar was used for the first time.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
A monk put an end to gladiator fighting in Rome.
Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
