Frank Sinatra performed to 175,000 people who paid to see him in Rio de Janeiro.
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A 60-ton decomposing whale exploded onto the busy streets of Taipei, Taiwan.
The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.
Thirty thousand lives were lost after a major earthquake shook Lisbon.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.