The Beatles released their very first album, “Please Please Me.”
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The New York Horticultural Society was founded.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
The super-bright comet 'Hale-Bopp' reached its closest point to Earth at a distance of 1.215 AU, making it visible to the naked eye.
Four people died, and at least twenty were injured in a terrorist attack near the Houses of Parliament in London.
The iconic Niagara Falls waterfall ran out of water during a drought.
