Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi was removed from power by a military coup d’état.
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Voice of America, the US' official external radio and television service, began broadcasting.
MP's in the UK voted in favor of triggering the European Union Bill (Article 50), which gave the government the power to prepare to leave the European Union.
NBC-TV premiered ''Late Night with David Letterman."
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
The first reusable spacecraft called ''Space Shuttle Columbia" broke apart when returning to Earth, and all seven astronauts on board died.
