Car engineer Henry Ford died at the age of 83.
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New York and New Jersey were struck by the strongest earthquake in over one hundred years.
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
Donald Trump married his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková, in Manhattan, New York.
The Territory of Mississippi was formally organized.
US forces circled the city of Baghdad, which led to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime two days later.
