Adolf Hitler appointed himself as the head of the Armed Forces High Command.
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The very first Sims game was released for PC in North America.
American religious leader Mary Baker Eddy was allegedly cured of her spinal injury by reading The Bible.
Dr. John J. Livingood reported the first synthetic production of a natural form of radium.
The former United States Senator Strom Thurmond sent a secret memo to President Richard Nixon's aide, saying John Lennon should be deported.
The Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.
