The US Commerce Department decided that hurricane names would no longer be only female.
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Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
The United States and Canada formed NORAD – the North American Air Defense Command.
The first confirmed trip to the North Pole was carried out by the Norge, a semi-rigid Italian-built airship.
The Soviet Union's Luna 5 uncrewed spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon.
National Hospital Day was first observed.
