Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
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Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.
Charles Darwin explored Bahia, San Salvador, Brazil, and fell in love with its variety of plants, flowers, animals & insects.
The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
