The first railway line in Pakistan opened, with trains running from Karachi to Kotri.
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OpenAI's newest version of ChatGPT, GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o), went live.
Brazil introduced the Golden Law (Lei Áurea), signed by the Princess Imperial of Brazil, which abolished all forms of slavery.
A new study was published in the journal 'Nature Geoscience,' which showed that the moon is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools.
An assassination attempt was made on Pope John Paul II.
Zakir Husain began an almost two-year term as President of India.