During his State of the Union address, US President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.”
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The unmanned space mission Luna 21 was launched.
Justin Bieber posted on Instagram that he has Lyme disease, a bacterial illness spread by ticks.
The first President of the United States, George Washington, delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City.
The world's oldest newspaper, Haarlem, published its first paper in the Netherlands.
Mathematician Sophie Germain became the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Paris Academy of Sizes Prize for her theory of surface vibrations.
