Boris Yeltsin resigned as the President of Russia, which left Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.
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American inventor Ogden Bolton Jr. patented the first electric-powered bicycle.
NASA successfully put two satellites designed to study the Moon's interior structure into the Moon's orbit.
Ted Bundy escaped from jail.
A blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred on the same day.
The Washington Post called Lorde a bigot in a full-page ad after she canceled her show in Israel.
