Walt Disney bought out Lucasfilm Ltd for $4 billion.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre horror film premiered in cinemas in Los Angeles, California.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
The World Wildlife Fund blamed humanity's rapidly expanding consumerism for decreasing 60% of the world's wildlife between 1970 & 2014.
The Canadian province of Quebec came close to becoming an independent country.
The Bosphorus Bridge was completed in Turkey.