The Republic of Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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US forces pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad to symbolize the end of the Iraqi president's brutal reign.
NASA publicly announced the names of the first 7 American astronauts.
Martin Luther King Jr. was laid to rest in Atlanta, Georgia.
President John F. Kennedy granted Winston Churchill the first-ever honorary US citizenship.
Dutch ecologists reported that wolves were living in the Netherlands again for the first time in 140 years.
