CNN made its debut as the first 24-hour news channel.
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Napoleon I undertook a ceremony to make his authority officially recognized.
Ion Antonescu, Romania's dictatorial World War II leader, was executed by firing squad.
The first payphone went into service in the US.
The Heimlich Maneuver was published in an article for the first time.
Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France signed the Secret Treaty of Dover.
