J.C. Penney’s opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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Demonstrations broke out in Tbilisi, Georgia, after attempts by the USSR to repress the Georgian language.
The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.
The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
America published the country's first American Dictionary of English Language.
