Petra Schneider set a world record by swimming 1,500 meters freestyle in just 15:43:31.
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Pope Fabian succeeded Anterus and became the twentieth pope of Rome.
The Soviet Union's Soyuz 17 was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz rocket.
The Sopranos, the hit American crime drama, debuted on HBO.
A large group of people was poisoned at a funeral in Mozambique.
John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
