Mark Messier was suspended for ten games for starting a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone.
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Jack Johnson became the first African American to win the world heavyweight boxing title.
The horror film 'The Exorcist,' based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, premiered.
A devastating tsunami and earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean.
The largest strike in South Korean history began.
A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.
