Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi was removed from power by a military coup d’état.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
Mary Queen of Scots received the death sentence from cousin Queen Elizabeth I.
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
NBC-TV premiered ''Late Night with David Letterman."
The first scientific hand-held calculators (HP-35) hit the markets with a hefty price tag at $395.
