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.
Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
The first music store in America was opened in Philadelphia by Michael Hillegas.
The Beatles signed on with their first formal manager, Brian Epstein.
The first European explorer discovered New Zealand.
