Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
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New Zealand made history by passing the world’s first tobacco ban.
Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
The first European explorer discovered New Zealand.
