Microsoft purchased Nokia for $7.2 billion.
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The Viking 2 became the second spacecraft to land on Mars.
Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world record speed exceeding 300 mph on the Bonneville Flats, Utah, US.
The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary war.
A record-breaking haircut saved a sheep that had not been sheared in over five years in Canberra, Australia.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners.
