Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
It went on to win Best Picture.
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NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' premiered in Los Angeles. It starred Tom Holland, Toby Maguire, and Andrew Garfield.
A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C., took place.
The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was 'Feminism.'
Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.