Pope Innocent IX was elected.
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Nigel Richards won the World Scrabble Championships for the fourth time in a row with the word 'groutier.'
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, returned to space aboard NASA's STS-95 Voyager.
Turkey became a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Istanbul Airport was opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross was formed when eighteen countries gathered in Geneva, Switzerland.
