Martin Luther King Jr. posthumously received the US Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
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Chinese mariner and explorer Zheng He set sail with his fleet to explore the world for the first time.
American comedy-drama 'Orange Is the New Black' was released on Netflix.
'Space Oddity' was released by David Bowie.
A series of seven bomb blasts killed 209 people in Mumbai, India.
The Skylab, America's first space station, was destroyed as it entered Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
