Jack Ruby’s gun, which was used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, sold for $220,000 in an auction.
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Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.
James H Mason patented the first US coffee percolator.
The horror film 'The Exorcist,' based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, premiered.
JonBenét Ramsey was found dead.
A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.
