The famous iconic painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch was stolen from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.
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The Soviet Union exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Price in Literature winner.
The first graphics card chip, i740, was released by Intel.
NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft became the first space probe to land on an asteroid when it touched down on 433 Eros.
The return of escaped slaves in the US became compulsory after congress introduced the fugitive slave law.
USA's men's hockey team beat Canada's for the first time in 12 years.
