Pope Innocent IX was elected.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became Argentina's first female president.
Adventures of Asterix was first published in the French magazine 'Pilote.'
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, returned to space aboard NASA's STS-95 Voyager.
The first computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET.
The James Bond spy movie 'Quantum of Solace' with Daniel Craig premiered in London.