The country of Georgia joined the United Nations shortly after the country became independent.
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Nobleman John Komnenos the Fat attempted to steal the imperial throne from Alexios III Angelos.
NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the Moon’s south pole.
Cliff Richard and The Drifters' single 'Living Doll' reached number one in the UK charts and stayed there for six weeks.
The Royal Navy began rationing rum.
The satirical book 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' by Robert Burns was published.
