Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
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The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago.
The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
A lunar eclipse saved explorer Christopher Columbus's life.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
A Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes announced he was able to create solid helium.
