Car engineer Henry Ford died at the age of 83.
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France initiated the War of the League of Cambrai against Venice.
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
US forces circled the city of Baghdad, which led to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime two days later.
New York and New Jersey were struck by the strongest earthquake in over one hundred years.
Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted, devastating Naples in the process.
