NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft became the first space probe to land on an asteroid when it touched down on 433 Eros.
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Albert Einstein warned against hydrogen bombs on the ''Today with Mrs. Roosevelt" weekly TV show.
War of the World's played on the radio, and residents in Quito, Ecuador, believed they were being attacked by Martians.
Madison Square Garden in New York City opened North America's first artificial ice rink.
The Soviet Union exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Price in Literature winner.
The return of escaped slaves in the US became compulsory after congress introduced the fugitive slave law.
