The United States and Canada formed NORAD – the North American Air Defense Command.
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The US Commerce Department decided that hurricane names would no longer be only female.
More than 69,000 people lost their lives to a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
The first university in the New World, the National University of San Marcos, was founded in Lima, Peru.
Revolutionary War soldiers formed the Society of St. Tammany.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
