Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
It went on to win Best Picture.
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The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
The clip-on tie was designed.
Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.
