NASA completed a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
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The festival of Saturnalia was first celebrated after a temple to the Roman god Saturn was built in Rome.
The Houston Astrodome opened.
American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski was arrested at a roadblock.
The first issue of Vogue magazine was published.
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's stated their word of the year was 'ustice.'j