Captain James Cook reached a record 1,130 miles from the South Pole.
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A three-day-long ''dense smog" rolled through London.
Silent romance comedy ''City Lights" by Charlie Chaplin premiered at the Los Angeles Theater.
White supremacist terrorists bombed Martin Luther King Jr's home.
Justin Bieber reached one million followers on Twitter.
Varig Flight 967 disappeared thirty minutes after taking off from Tokyo.