George H. W. Bush was elected as the 41st President of the United States of America.
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The Bodleian Library, situated at The University of Oxford, England, opened its doors to the public.
All schools and colleges in Delhi, India, were closed for a week due to dangerous levels of smog.
Two hundred bodies were found in a mass grave site between Ethiopia and Somalia.
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
The Camp Fire in California became that state's deadliest blaze after it killed 88 people and caused 52,000 people to be evacuated.
