Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
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More than 69,000 people lost their lives to a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
The first university in the New World, the National University of San Marcos, was founded in Lima, Peru.
National Hospital Day was first observed.
The United States and Canada formed NORAD – the North American Air Defense Command.
The first-ever quadraphonic concert was held.
