The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
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A lunar eclipse saved explorer Christopher Columbus's life.
The UK's Prince Harry was withdrawn from a military tour of Afghanistan.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
