Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
It went on to win Best Picture.
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Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
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.'
The first music store in America was opened in Philadelphia by Michael Hillegas.