Colombia’s militant group FARC agreed to lay down their weapons after 52 years of guerilla warfare.
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The world's first operating ATM opened in Enfield, London.
Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali retired for the third time.
Illinois became the first US state to make it compulsory by law to wear a seatbelt.
Iraqi warplanes bombed the town of Sardasht in Iran with a chemical attack.
