The movie “Malcolm X,” starring Denzel Washington, was released in the US.
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Push-button telephones were made available to the general public for the first time.
St. Elizabeth's flood began in the evening when a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands broke.
Morocco's King Mohammed V returned after being exiled in 1955.
An American 26-year-old, John Allen Chau, was killed by natives living on the forbidden Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal.
The UK's repealed anti-gay amendment, Section 28, came to a complete end in the UK.
