Kuwait declared its independence from the UK.
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President Lincoln signed an Act that made slavery illegal in US territories.
The TIROS-7 meteorological satellite was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket.
Benito Mussolini was arrested in Switzerland for a violent strike. He spent two weeks in jail and was deported to Italy.
Drug lord Pablo Escobar handed himself into the police.
Thousands of pigeons went missing after a freak weather incident.
