Law No. 38 in Iceland was approved, making abortion legal.
Iceland was the first western country to legalize abortion.
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Michelangelo's famous painting 'Christ of the Woman of Samaria' was sold for a staggering $7.4 million.
Honeybees stung Johannes Relleke a world record 2,443 times in Zimbabwe.
The United States Coast Guard was formed by an act passed by the US Congress.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather won five Golden Globe awards.
A patent was received for Ole Kirk Christiansen's LEGO plastic bricks.
