A family coup in Saudi Arabia replaced King Saud with Faisal, his half-brother.
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The Dow Jones Industrial hit its third record high in one week.
North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th & 40th states to join the United States of America.
The Morris Worm, the first computer virus made to be caught over the internet, disabled 6,000 computers in 24 hours.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially made a federal US holiday.
A suicide bomber killed civilians watching the daily border closing ceremony at Pakistan's Wagah border.
