The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
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The United Kingdom became the first country to legalize the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.
Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.