Sony released the PlayStation 3 console in North America.
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This day marked the beginning of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.
The crew aboard Japan Airlines Flight 1628 sighted three potential UFOs above Alaska.
The US Senate held its first session in the unfinished Capitol Building.
The Ottoman Empire ended when the last Sultan Mehmed VI was exiled to Malta on a British warship.
Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls.
