The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
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The first warrants were issued to arrest three women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, US.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
Charles Darwin explored Bahia, San Salvador, Brazil, and fell in love with its variety of plants, flowers, animals & insects.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
