The foundations for the Tower of Pisa were placed in Italy.
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The Battle of Pharsalus ended.
The virtual pet video game, Seaman, was released on the Dreamcast in North America.
The USSR launched the Mars 7 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in modern-day Kazakhstan.
American forces made a second attack on Japan during World War II and dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon handed in his resignation.
