Martin Luther King Jr. posthumously received the US Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
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The Skylab, America's first space station, was destroyed as it entered Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
'Space Oddity' was released by David Bowie.
A series of seven bomb blasts killed 209 people in Mumbai, India.
Chinese mariner and explorer Zheng He set sail with his fleet to explore the world for the first time.
Harper Lee's book 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
